105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Wilson Utility Construction

Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less · Electrical burns, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wilson Utility Construction, Power Line Project, UNION CITY, CALIFORNIA 94587 on — Electrical burns, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.

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On November 19, 2015, at about 8:00am two employees received electrical burns when they removed a grounding strap from 220Kv lines. They were working from a personnel platform suspended by a crane on a barge in the San Francisco Bay.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Electric parts, n.e.c.

Best Buy

An employee was repairing a microwave at a customer's residence when he suffered an electrical shock, which caused burns to both his hands.

Seabrook Village, Inc.

An employee was setting up music for a fitness class. As the employee plugged their personal device into the outlet, she was shocked. The employee experienced pain in her left side, mainly in her arm and head.

NY Developers & Management Inc

Two employees were testing the phase voltage of the 208 volt bus bar circuit. An arc flash occurred during the testing. One employee suffered burns to the face, neck, and hands. Another employee suffered burns to his arm.

Anchor Construction Corporation

An employee was in a manhole pulling a 120-volt spider to connect it. The spider snapped and struck his chest. He was shocked and hospitalized.

Daystar

An employee was wrapping lights around a tree when their right arm contacted exposed wires, resulting in electric shock.

Kasparian Underground LLC

An employee was terminating cables in a junction box. A loose ground wire came into contact with the bushing, causing a flash that burned the right side of the employee's face and his right hand.

Viking Utility Construction

An employee was using a bucket truck hoist to raise secondary aerial wiring. The wire made contact with the primary wire, causing an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to both hands and was hospitalized.

Henkels & Mc Coy

An employee was working to move a telephone pole when the pole rolled, causing injury to their hip.

Standard Utility Construction, Inc.

An employee was terminating conductors to buss bars inside the secondary compartment of a single-phase transformer. An arc flash occurred, causing burns to the soft tissue of the employee's face.

Michels Power, Inc.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

Department of Justice - USMS

The injured employee was assisting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement operation. During an apprehension, officers returned fire at a subject and struck the employee with a bullet. The employee sustained a gunshot wound to their right hand.

M1 Support Services

The injured employee was assisting in the disassembly phase after a radar array had been lowered and secured. The crew began removing load bearing pins from an overhead crane to free the radome. A load bearing pin was stuck. The injured employee went to remove the pin manually as a second team member applied pressure from the opposite side. The pin unexpectedly released and struck the injured employee s right thumb, resulting in partial amputation of the distal phalanx including an open distal phalanx fracture and nail bed laceration.

Dept. of Defense - USN

An employee was working on an electrical panel in a mechanical room when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered burns.

Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

Sycuan Casino Resort

An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.