2A Con Edison worker was burned in the face while responding to a reported outage at a commercial building in Maspeth Monday night, said the utility company.
The employee, who was testing equipment at 55-30 46th Street, near the corner of 55th Avenue, was injured in what a Con Ed spokesperson called an “electrical flash.”
Around 9:30 p.m. the worker was transported to New York Hospital Queens with serious but non-life injuries, said the FDNY.
[...] Con Ed Worker Burned in Queens, Worker injured in NV Energy Box explosion, City Worker Injured in Electrical Incident, these are just a few electrical accidents that have been in the headlines the last few months. Regulatory and government agencies are taking notice, and so are facility managers and owners. The 2012 changes to NFPA 70e include several major updates regarding electrical safety requirements, and in our opinion the most important changes are those revolving around arc flash. [...]
[...] details from The Queens Courier dated 11/27/12. Be Sociable, Share! [...]