Indirect exposure to electricity, unspecified · Electrocutions, electric shocks
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hancock Bank, 200 E. Nine Mile Road, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 32534
on — Electrocutions, electric shocks, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee had her hands on a metal drive-thru teller drawer at the same time that a nearby transformer blew, resulting in her hands being electrically shocked. She was hospitalized.
An employee was welding clips onto the end of the bridging of a wall, then installing bolts through the clips to the wall. As the employee lowered his rod holder down into the lift basket, the rod contacted the basket and energized it. As the employee leaned forward, they contacted the basket and grounded joist, resulting in first- and second-degree electrical burns to the stomach, back, and arms.
An employee was on the ground preparing to receive a wire stringing steel rope being flown by a helicopter. The employee grabbed the steel line and was shocked by electricity from the line on his right hand. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for nerve damage to his hand.
An employee was pulling a line through a light pole when it contacted an uninsulated line. The employee was shocked and sustained burns that required hospitalization.
An employee was in a bucket truck drilling a hole into a utility pole when a conductor located above the employee broke free from the pole and fell onto the equipment. The employee suffered second-degree burns to the right side of their face.
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Employees were measuring a vault that was under construction at a new bank location when the vault fell on top of an employee, trapping and crushing her. She suffered multiple bone fractures to her lower extremities.
An associate was at this branch location to attend a managers' meeting on a rainy day. The associate entered the side door just before 2:00 PM and walked across the entrance rug. Her foot was in a cast and when she stepped onto the tile floor, she slipped and fell onto her left hip. She was hospitalized for a broken hip that required surgery.
On May 29, 2018, an employee grabbed her sweater next to her desk and put it on. Upon doing so, she felt something on her elbow and realized she had been bitten by a spider.
An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.