NAPLES, FLORIDA—
MAsTec Services Company, Inc.
Indirect exposure to electricity, unspecified · Electrocutions, electric shocks
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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at MAsTec Services Company, Inc., 2210 vandebilt Beach, NAPLES, FLORIDA 34109 on — Electrocutions, electric shocks, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee was working to replace a lightning arrester( electrical distribution work). When the tool he was using came in proximity to an energized jumper coming from the top of the lightning arrester, an arc flash occurred.
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