# Electrocution, electric shock at TechServ Consulting and Training, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2025021857` · 2/26/2025 · CHEYENNE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocution, electric shock
## Cause
- **Event:** Indirect exposure to electricity  unspecified
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** TechServ Consulting and Training, LTD
- **Location:** Intersection of 7th St & LL Males Ave, CHEYENNE, OKLAHOMA, 73628
- **NAICS:** 541611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing a post-construction inspection after the telephone company worked on a pole. The employee put a 17-foot fiberglass stick against the pole, and was strapping a bungee cord around the pole so it wouldn t fall, when he contacted a faulty ground wire and sustained an electric shock.

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