# Electrical burns, unspecified at West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211970` · 12/28/2016 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 11600 53rd Street N, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33760
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee locked a machine out, opened the panel door, and was reattaching a wire nut onto a conduit when his hand touched a live wire. He was shocked and suffered a burn on his hand, requiring hospitalization. Although the machine was de-energized at the time of the incident, power was still coming into it through a box at the top of the machine.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*