# ELECTRICAL
> MSHA accident `220172560008` · 09/08/2017 · Highland Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** ELECTRICAL
- **Accident type:** Contact with electrical current
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Electrical maintenance
- **Injury source:** ELECTRICAL APPARATUS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** ELECT SHOCK,ELECTROCUTION
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** 243
- **Mine experience:** 3.54 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Operator:** Highland Mining Company
- **Mine:** [4609204](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609204)
## Narrative

Employee was in the process of removing a cable from the J-box, and received an electrical shock to the right and left hands. Employee had pulled the disconnects on the pole and at the substation, and shunted the wires to remove any current.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*