# Electrical burns and electrocution at Hamilton County Electric Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2025065836` · 6/19/2025 · HAMILTON, TEXAS
## 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:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hamilton County Electric Cooperative
- **Location:** 518 US Hwy 281 South, HAMILTON, TEXAS, 76531
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside an insulated bucket truck working on an energized power line. He was tying the neutral conductor onto the insulator when his upper back/neck made contact with an energized switch (7.2 kV). Electric current flowed from his upper back/neck to his left hand, resulting in a severe burn to his left arm and other burns to his upper torso.

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