# Electrical burns, unspecified at Dreisilker Electric Motors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019099428` · 9/10/2019 · AURORA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
- **Source:** Switchboards, switches, fuses
## Employer
- **Name:** Dreisilker Electric Motors, Inc.
- **Location:** 600 N. Commerce Street, AURORA, ILLINOIS, 60504
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee of Dreisilker was working as a field service technician, performing infrared testing for a customer. The employee was walking away while a third-party contractor employee was closing the door of a fuse box. An arc flash came from the fuse box and burned both employees, and they were both hospitalized. The Dreisilker employee sustained burns to the right hand, and on the left side of the neck, forearm and face.

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