# Electrical burns  any degree at E.P. Breaux Utility Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024065657` · 6/25/2024 · ARNAUDVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns  any degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity  unspecified
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** E.P. Breaux Utility Services, LLC
- **Location:** Arnauldville Substation, ARNAUDVILLE, LOUISIANA, 70512
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were removing an existing cutout and insulator from the steel in a distribution low bay near a circuit of underground feeders connected to a 1-inch bus. Employee 1 contacted the bus with his back sustaining a shock, and employee 2 contacted it with his left hand and received second-degree burns to his three middle fingers and the back side of his knee where the electric current exited his body. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

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