Third or fourth degree electrical burns

Name: Third or fourth degree electrical burns at GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO
Start: 11/28/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181112195 · 11/28/2018 · GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Nonclassifiable
Nature of injury: Third or fourth degree electrical burns

Cause

Event: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
Source: Switchboards, switches, fuses

Employer

Name: GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO
Location: m/v USS Miguel Keith, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, 92113
NAICS: 336611
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

An employee was performing continuity testing on a circuit breaker. An alligator clip touched energized parts of the circuit breaker, causing an arc flash. The employee suffered second- and third-degree burns.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown