# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Wright Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016076971` · 7/22/2016 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocutions, electric shocks
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Wright Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 480 Kramaria, DENVER, COLORADO, 80220
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was injured from electrical shock while trimming a tree. The limb he was trimming fell on a utility wire and he was shocked and suffered a dislocated shoulder.

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