@dc42 thanks for the response, I hadn't even considered that possibility, but given your expertise is much greater than mine and the logic sounds reasonable, I'll be sure to implement that into the Hotend assembly to protect it.
I do still have questions as to what the driver 4 reporting a high temperature issue. do you think that the event of the filament sensor getting excess static charge began affecting the the stepper motor driver? The wiring for the stepper motor (x axis in this case) wasn't in the same wire loom so I would assume the only point of contact could be on the board side.
As for the filament sensor, I did find the portion in the documentation and it say there is a 12c communication error. Me being a mechanical engineer, I'm very fresh in the data communication and coding aspects of engineering so I'm not privy to knowing how to solve an issue like that, nor did I find that information under the troubleshooting tab. Is it possible the static discharge could have affected the filament sensor as well?