Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact unspecified · Fractures and burns
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Indian Health Service, 607 Indian Health Road, PINE RIDGE, SOUTH DAKOTA 57770
on — Fractures and burns, affecting the Body systems and other part(s) of body.
Final narrative
An employee was standing on a ladder installing a fluorescent light bulb ballast when he contacted a live wire and received an electrical shock to his left hand, causing him to fall from the ladder to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with an electrical shock and burns to his left hand, as well as fractures to his right tibia and distal right radius. The wire was not deenergized or locket out/tagged out.
Hospitalized Body systems and other part(s) of body Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
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