# Electrical burns and electrocution at Western Industries Plastic Products LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2025032916` · 3/28/2025 · WINFIELD, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Electrical wiring building or machine
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Industries Plastic Products LLC.
- **Location:** 7727 First Avenue Strother Field Industrial Park, WINFIELD, KANSAS, 67156
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance work; replacing a disc in the blow mold shed of a blow mold machine. The employee contacted 3-phase electrical wires rated at 480 volts. The employee sustained an electric shock and burns. He was hospitalized.

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