Universal Cable Holdings, Inc.

An employee was surveying the area for a utility pole at the top of an embankment behind a building. The employee tripped on a vine and fell down the embankment suffering multiple internal injuries including fractures to their orbital bone, nose, and wrist.

An employee was climbing a 15-to-20-foot ladder to install wire when the ladder support strand came loose and he fell off the ladder approximately 12 feet to the gravel roadway, resulting in a fractured clavicle, a concussion, and a possible rib fracture.

An employee was installing cable services on the roof of a customer's pool house. He stepped onto a plastic panel that was being used as a skylight. The plastic panel broke, causing him to fall approximately 20 feet to a concrete surface. The employee sustained fractures to the right wrist, left hand, pelvis, hip, and ribs.

An employee was fixing a cable line when they began feeling ill and experiencing abdominal & leg cramps due to possible heat stress. The employee was hospitalized that evening for dehydration.

An employee was ascending a 28-foot extension ladder to work on a cable wire. The employee fell backward approximately 10 feet onto the concrete sidewalk, resulting in a left elbow fracture.

An employee was performing finishing work on a residential driveway when they began to experience body cramps and were hospitalized for heat stress and dehydration.

An employee was staking tomato plants on a farm. The employee began to feel sick and collapsed, suffering from dehydration and heat shock.

An agent was participating in SWAT team selection and was performing various physical fitness skills including running and exercise intervals. The agent experienced dehydration and a muscular injury that required hospitalization.

An employee was traveling back from work when they became ill and experienced dizziness due to heat exhaustion.

On September 26, 2023, an employee was delivering packages when he began to feel ill with a pain in his side. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion and dehydration.

An employee was descending a ladder that was on a strand when the ladder shifted, causing the employee to jump off and fall about 5.5 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right ankle.

An employee was cutting boxes using a box cutting tool and lacerated an artery in their wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was removing 2,500-foot reels of 1 cable-in-conduit (CIC) weighing ~1,022 lbs. from the back of an enclosed delivery truck. The employee was manually rolling a reel off the truck when another reel shifted and rolled forward, crushing his right hand between the two reels. The employee's right ring finger was partially amputated without loss of bone.

An employee was on an extension ladder working to replace a service line to a customer's home. The existing service line broke, causing him to fall off the ladder. He was hospitalized with a dislocated elbow and fractures in his left wrist requiring surgery.

An employee stepped on a traffic cone while walking to a truck. The employee slipped and fell, suffered a fractured and possibly dislocated ankle, and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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.