Chain Electric Company, Inc.

A five-member crew was replacing a wood utility pole. One of them was at the hole, removing the cover over it, while a utility truck was lifting the pole. The rigging rope that was lifting the pole broke; the pole fell, struck a retaining wall, bounced, and fell to the ground, striking the injured employee. The employee's right arm was amputated above the elbow.

A five-member crew was replacing a wood utility pole. As the pole was being lifted by a utility truck, the injured employee was removing the cover that was over the hole. The pole fell from the rigging and struck a retaining wall, bounced, and then fell to the ground striking the injured employee. The employee's right arm was amputated above the elbow. The employee also sustained injury to their right leg.

On August 15, 2022, at approximately 3:30 p.m. an employee was performing construction on powerlines when he reported that he was not feeling well and was having pain and tingling in his lower right arm. The employee was instructed to get in the cab of a bucket truck to cool down and drink fluids. After approximately fifteen minutes, the employee was lying beside the truck with pain and cramping to his arms and legs. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke.

An employee was undoing a snag of wire splice hung up on a pole. The wire snagged the employee's left glove, pulling the employee's hand into the wire rollers; the employee's left thumb suffered several fractures.

A crew was changing out a single phase pole with a transformer on it. Work on the pole was completed and the cover-up was being removed when an employee noticed the animal guard that was installed on the arrestor was not in its proper place. As he attempted to correct it, he came in contact with energized parts while his elbow contacted a grounded surface. He received second degree electrical burns on his right arm.

An employee was shocked in their upper torso and sustained burns to their chest and arms.

An employee sustained electrical burns resulting in hospitalization.

An employee was on a ladder, working on lighting in a conference room ceiling. The employee was shocked and fell from the ladder to the floor. The employee lost consciousness and sustained burns.

An employee was shocked while practicing tack welding.

At about 4:15 p.m. on December 16, 2020, an employee suffered an electrical shock while working with a soaker sink in a meat department.

An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder approximately 6 feet above the floor while he attached a suspended light fixture to the ceiling. The employee lost balance, and fell to the tiled floor below, sustaining blunt force trauma to his head.

An employee was inspecting the overhead area of a single-person lift and repositioning the lift through a double doorway. As they were transitioning through the doorway, they were caught between the doorframe and the vertical mast of the lift. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to the nose, left maxillary sinus, left orbital bone, and left jaw, with fractures at the maxillary sinus area.

The injured employee was performing routine maintenance on a fan belt/pulley. The injured employee and another person were moving the pulley back and forth manually to find a bearing issue. The injured employee's left ring finger got caught between the belt and the pulley wheel, resulting in a soft tissue amputation.

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.