# Electrical burns, unspecified at Tennant Lawn Service
> OSHA SIR `2017087759` · 8/14/2017 · BALLWIN, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Tennant Lawn Service
- **Location:** 204 Wildbrier Dr., BALLWIN, MISSOURI, 63011
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a bucket lift with a coworker riding along. They were positioning the bucket lift prior to trimming branches off a tree. They were about two feet away from the tree and any powerlines when an arc came through the bucket controllers and burned the employee's hands and chest. He was hospitalized.

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