# Electrical burns  any degree at Ohio Edison Company
> OSHA SIR `2025043836` · 4/24/2025 · SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns  any degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to electric arc
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches, ratchets
## Employer
- **Name:** Ohio Edison Company
- **Location:** 2184 Possum Rd, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 45505
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disconnecting a transformer when they dropped their wrench and it contacted the neutral bus bar and 120V paddle of the transformer. An arc flash occurred and the employee sustained second-degree burns to the face.

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