# Electrical burns, unspecified at EVERS ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021065270` · 6/28/2021 · LAKE VILLAGE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** EVERS ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
- **Location:** 33.364728, -91.287513, LAKE VILLAGE, ARKANSAS, 71653
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were tracing a line of a transformer to conduct repair after the transformer had been struck by lightning. The transformer was for an irrigation machine. Employees dug a ditch and found that there was another primary line which was damaged and not in use. The injured employee was checking this line with a low voltage meter. When he checked the second phase, an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his left hand.

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