# Surface, flesh wounds and burns, electrical injuries at GC Industrial Services
> OSHA SIR `2024076361` · 7/15/2024 · AFFTON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Surface, flesh wounds and burns, electrical injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity  greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** GC Industrial Services
- **Location:** 8021 New Hampshire Avenue, AFFTON, MISSOURI, 63123
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was vacuum-cleaning a 480-volt HVAC unit. The employee came into contact with an electrically-charged coil heat strip and suffered burns to the left hand and the left side of their forehead, as well as scrapes to their legs. The employee was hospitalized.

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