# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Doctors' Memorial Hospital, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065065` · 6/4/2017 · PERRY, 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:** Ambulance, police, and other emergency passenger vehicle
- **Secondary source:** Lightning
## Employer
- **Name:** Doctors' Memorial Hospital, Inc.
- **Location:** 333 N. Byron Butler Parkway, PERRY, FLORIDA, 32347
- **NAICS:** 621111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 4, 2017, at 5:40 p.m., an employee was unloading a patient from the back of an ambulance. While he was holding onto the door of the ambulance, lightning struck the vehicle. He suffered respiratory arrest and lost consciousness, requiring hospitalization.

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