# Electrical burns, unspecified at Texas Power Suppliers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022087085` · 8/10/2022 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, neck, and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Power Suppliers, Inc.
- **Location:** 5514 42nd Street, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79414
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee working from a boom bucket had just put copper on a utility pole and was setting it. The employee moved the center phase, which was laying on the insulator, when an electrical current from the tie arced. The employee sustained burns to his chest, neck, back, face, nose, and ears.

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