North Houston Pole Line

An employee was removing a staple from a wire conductor reel when the staple dislodged from the wood and struck the employee in the eye causing an eye injury.

An employee climbed a wooden pole to remove a downed conductor. The employee's right arm contacted the bottom of the energized switch and received third degree burns.

The employee was working from a bucket truck transferring live wires from an old power pole to a new pole. The employee's lanyard got close enough to a live wire that an arc flash occurred. The employee sustained second degree burns where the metal parts of the harness contacted his body.

An employee was changing out the insulator on a buswork at a substation. An energized lightning arrester shocked the employee, causing burns to the left hand. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was in an aerial lift preparing to install mechanical rigging onto a new power line when the fourth and fifth fingers of the employee's right hand were pinched and crushed between the aerial lift basket rail and the cross arm of the power line structure.

An employee was going to fill a pallet with items from the warehouse. He was reaching for the handle of the pallet jack but unintentionally grabbed the throttle, causing the pallet jack to move and pin him against another pallet jack. The employee sustained a leg fracture.

An employee was loading merchandise onto rolling containers that were on a remote-operated order picker. While reorganizing merchandise to prevent top loading, the employee's wireless control device contacted a container and caused the order picker to move forward. The employee's right ring finger was caught between two containers and was amputated above the first knuckle.

The injured employee was operating an elevator at a construction site. He went from the tenth floor to the eleventh floor with a plumber and a scissor lift in the elevator. The plumber was using a remote to operate the scissor lift. As the scissor lift was exiting the elevator, a pipe that was on the scissor lift struck the injured employee's chest. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was stepping off a pallet jacket when they fell backward. The throttle engaged and the vehicle ran over the employee's right ankle.

An employee was dismantling the engine from a vehicle. The vehicle slid off the loader and struck the employee, pushing him into his toolbox. The employee sustained a broken jaw.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.