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Virginia Worker Suffers Serious Burns At Roanoke Water Plant

While serious falls are the number one cause for injury when it comes to industrial occupations, burn injuries are also common when it comes to working in a plant, factory, or construction site. This was the case in Roanoke in Western Virginia on Sunday night, December 20 at the Western Virginia Water Authority. Workers are at the water plant 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The company’s spokesperson, Sarah Baumgardner, said that a worker received serious burns to his hand and forearm at around 9:30 PM at the Roanoke Regional Water Pollution Control Plant in Southeast Roanoke. Baumgardher said that the type of injury was a electrical arc flash-burn caused by an electrical panel with medium voltage.

Emergency workers rushed the man to a local hospital in the minutes after the burn accident, but he was then transferred to the burn unit located at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The identity of the man was not released, nor was an update on his condition after the Virginia burn injury. It is also not clear how long the man would be unable to return to work, what the long-term consequences of his injury may be, and whether or not the man would receive Virginia workers’ compensation for his injuries and lost wages.

The Western Virginia Water Authority spokesperson added that the burn accident was not related to the adverse weather that occurred on Saturday and Sunday.

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