Trinity Solar

An employee was working in an attic securing a wire conduit. Due to high temperatures, he left the attic, became ill, and experienced shaking and cramping. The employee was hospitalized and treated for heat exhaustion.

An employee was drilling an access hole into the meter box of a residential property. The drill bit punched through the metal and hit a live conductor inside the box. The employee sustained an electrical arc flash burn to their hand and was hospitalized.

An employee was adjusting stabilizers at the top of a ladder, preparing to install solar panels. He fell from the ladder to the pavement 8 feet below, sustaining a broken left ankle.

An employee was installing solar panels when they slipped and fell from the roof to the ground. The employee sustained a broken ankle.

An employee had accessed a snow-covered roof to set up roof anchors for a solar panel installation job. While he was clearing snow from the roof edge, he fell 18 feet to the ground below, suffering cracked ribs and a hairline fracture to his hip/pelvis.

An employee was power washing a metal tank from an elevated platform. They fell through a gap between the platform and the tank. The employee landed on the ground and sustained fractures to their ankles and feet.

An employee was installing a metal roof when he stepped on a skylight. The employee fell through the skylight to the ground, resulting in head and shoulder fractures.

An employee was replacing an HVAC unit in a residential home. While he was in the attic space above the garage, the wood he was walking on broke, causing the employee to fall through the sheetrock to the concrete floor below. The employee bumped his head and sustained a shoulder injury as well as a broken ankle.

An employee was putting a tarp on a water tank while standing on a trailer. She lost her footing and fell through the trailer bed, striking the corner of the trailer bed. The employee sustained internal bleeding.

An employee was repairing a sub-floor in a residential house that had water and fire damage. The employee fell through the sub-floor and landed in the basement, resulting in spinal fractures that required hospitalization.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.

An employee was changing fuel filters on a front-end loader. When he descended the access steps of the engine bay, he misstepped and fell approximately 3 feet to the concrete surface below. The employee sustained a fractured left hip.

An employee was walking in the warehouse when their foot was struck by the forks of an unloaded forklift that was passing by. The employee's foot was fractured.

An employee was climbing down an extension ladder from a residential roof. The ladder collapsed under his foot, and he fell backward onto the grass. He suffered a sprained neck, a fractured scapula, and fractures to his T7 and T12 vertebrae.

An employee was working to straighten a solar panel by reaching into the unguarded rotating section of the conveyor when their right thumb got caught in the conveyor, resulting in amputation of their right thumb.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.