Incident date: 2022-09-22
NAICS industry code: 238990

On September 22, 2022, between 12:00 p.m. and 12:10 p.m., an employee was using a hand auger to dig holes to construct a new fence at a residential site. The auger struck an underground electric line and the employee received an electric shock and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, unspecified
code_source: title: Augers, plumbing snakes-power not determined
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate