# Electrical burns and electrocution at Charter Next Generation, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065410` · 6/18/2024 · LEXINGTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Body systems and other part(s) of body
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns and electrocution
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity  unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Next Generation, Inc.
- **Location:** 60 Frecka Drive, LEXINGTON, OHIO, 44904
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 18, 2024, an employee was adjusting the "teeth" of the treater on a blown film line when they were electrically shocked by the treater resulting in third-degree burns on their thumb, index and middle fingers of their right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

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