# Electrical burns and electrocution at NAVFACSYSCOM
> OSHA SIR `2024109744` · 10/19/2024 · NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Body systems and other part(s) of body
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns and electrocution
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity  greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Electric parts  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** NAVFACSYSCOM
- **Location:** 9742 Maryland Avenue, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, 23511
- **NAICS:** 561210
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

A three-person crew was completing maintenance at a substation in a building. Employee 1's hand contacted an energized portion of the equipment and she sustained an electrical shock and third-degree burns to multiple parts of her body. Employee 2 pulled employee 1 away from the energized equipment and sustained a shock and third-degree burns to their hands.

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