IMCA: Worker suffered eye injuries in electric arc incident

A Vessel ETO (Electro-Technical Officer) sustained light burn injuries to the eyes (“arc-eye”) due to an electrical arc spike during disconnection of a shore power cable.

The ETO reportedly switched off the breaker at the quayside and managed to disconnect the cable from vessel shore connection Junction box. When pulling out the cable, it appeared that cable was still energized from shore side and an electric arc occurred, causing light burn injury to the eyes.

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