# Electrical burns  any degree at Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025044009` · 4/29/2025 · CAMDEN, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Electrical burns  any degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to electric arc
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corporation
- **Location:** 14668 AR Highway 203, CAMDEN, ARKANSAS, 71701
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a bucket truck to install an underground primary wire on an overhead structure. He was hanging a pulling block to install pulling ropes that would pull the underground primary wire through conduits when an arc flash occurred, causing electrical burns to his upper torso, right arm, and both hands.

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