# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Coastal Building Materials
> OSHA SIR `2015010755` · 1/23/2015 · CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocutions, electric shocks
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Coastal Building Materials
- **Location:** 906 El Dorado Pky. E, CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA, 33904
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was touching a boom truck used to deliver building materials while his co-worker was trying to lower the boom back into the truck. The boom struck a power line and the employee on the ground received an electric shock and was hospitalized.

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