# Third or fourth degree electrical burns at Hooper Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021065197` · 6/25/2021 · MADISON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot(feet) and knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree electrical burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Utility and telephone poles
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Hooper Corporation
- **Location:** 2030 Pennsylvania Avenue, MADISON, WISCONSIN, 53704
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was directing the operator of a digger derrick in placing a wooden utility pole in the ground when the insulated boom of the digger derrick contacted an overhead powerline and the employee's leg contacted the energized utility pole, resulting in third degree burns to his knee and foot.

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