# Electrical burns, unspecified at Broadway Maintenance LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022098449` · 9/24/2022 · LAKE GROVE, NEW YORK
## 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:** Electric parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Broadway Maintenance LLC
- **Location:** 4 Smith Haven Mall, LAKE GROVE, NEW YORK, 11755
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting a co-worker in running a new piece of temporary cable from service/gear #1 to the existing transformer. The co-worker was feeding a cable through a plug to the injured employee, who had his right hand inside the switch gear #2 in order to grab the cable. An arc flash occurred as a result of switch gear #2 being energized and the employee was exposed to 480 volts of electricity, resulting in electrical burns to the left hand, arm, chest, and ear.

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