# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Northlake Shipyard, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019065626` · 6/4/2019 · SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocutions, electric shocks
## Cause
- **Event:** Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle
- **Source:** Commercial fishing vessel
- **Secondary source:** Power cords, electrical cords, extension cords
## Employer
- **Name:** Northlake Shipyard, Inc.
- **Location:** FV Alaska Mist, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, 98103
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

Before noon on June 4, 2019, a marine inspector was conducting an inspection on board a fishing vessel at a shipyard. As the employee was climbing out of the vessel's anchor chain locker, he was shocked by a damaged extension cord running through a chain attached to shelving on a bulkhead. He suffered nerve damage to his thumb and thermal burns to his forearm muscle, and was hospitalized.

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