Two employees were in the bucket of a bucket truck energizing a 13,800-to-2,400-volt stepdown transformer by closing three 100k fused cutouts at the riser pole. A voltage meter used to take readings on the ground was overloaded and failed, causing an arc flash. One of the employees in the bucket suffered first- and second-degree burns to both wrists, the face, the neck, and the ears and was hospitalized.