# Electrocution, electric shock at Juan Ayala
> OSHA SIR `2025021781` · 2/24/2025 · DECATUR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocution, electric shock
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity  greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
## Employer
- **Name:** Juan Ayala
- **Location:** 1500 S. Deer Park Road, DECATUR, TEXAS, 76234
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While performing construction operations, employees were utilizing a boom lift to lower a pump jack scaffold. The boom lift shifted and the pump jack scaffold came into contact with adjacent power lines. Two employees working at ground level were holding onto the pump jack and were shocked by the electricity. Both employees were hospitalized.

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