# Electrocutions, electric shocks at Armstrong Landscape Design Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015041659` · 4/1/2015 · PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocutions, electric shocks
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Cutting handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Armstrong Landscape Design Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 125 Wells Rd, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33480
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On or about 4/1/2015 at 2:00 PM, an employee was trimming a ficus hedge using a pole pruner. The pole pruner got stuck in the branch that the employee was trying to cut, so the employee yanked it. The pruner made contact with a power line, which shocked the employee; the employee was unconscious for approximately 1 minute. The employee also sustained burns to the left-hand index finger, as well as ankle burns. The employee was hospitalized overnight.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*