# Electrocution, electric shock at Vestis Uniforms and Workplace Supplies
> OSHA SIR `2025088014` · 8/13/2025 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Electrocution, electric shock
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to electricity  unspecified
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vestis Uniforms and Workplace Supplies
- **Location:** 10822 Midwest Industrial BLVD, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63132
- **NAICS:** 812990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a PLC onto a washer. After he hooked it up, it did not power up when turned on. While the employee was checking the leads with a voltage meter, he was shocked through the left little finger, chest, and right arm from a transformer above him. He was hospitalized.

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