# Electrical burns, unspecified at Jacobs Field Services, North America
> OSHA SIR `2017021226` · 2/8/2017 · COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Switchboards, switches, fuses
## Employer
- **Name:** Jacobs Field Services, North America
- **Location:** 3000 8th St., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, 68601
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was terminating a ground wire onto a mechanical lug on the lower half of a 480-volt, 200-amp disconnect. When he loosened the mechanical ground lug, the ground wire came into contact with an energized A-phase, which was not fully insulated, at the top of the disconnect. An arc flash then occurred and burned the employee's face and left hand.

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