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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

F&H Electrical Contractors, Inc.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at F&H Electrical Contractors, Inc. , 5633 Long Shore Loop, SARASOTA, FLORIDA 34230 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee was lifting a heavy box to throw it into a dumpster. His hand was crushed between the box and dumpster, causing a severe laceration.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Boxes, crates, cartons

F&H Electrical Contractors, Inc.

An employee was stripping an underground electric cable with a box cutter-style knife. The blade folded and cut his right index finger at the first knuckle, resulting in an amputation of the fingertip.

F&H Electrical Contractors, Inc.

Employees were at a mobile park servicing post-hurricane damaged homes and grounds by testing cables, re-energizing cables, and getting services ready for new mobile homes to be placed back on the lots. The injured employee was making secondary electrical connections to pre-existing cables that were on the ground where previous mobile homes were when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered partial thickness facial burns.

F&H Electrical Contractors, Inc.

An employee was filling up a small engine with gas. A fire started and burned the employee's legs and hand.

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TForce Freight

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

Liveo Research, Inc.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

Best Pump and Flow

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Lasseter Tractor Company. Inc.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

Kasparian Underground LLC

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.

Viking Utility Construction

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.

Henkels & Mc Coy

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

Standard Utility Construction, Inc.

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.

Michels Power, Inc.

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.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

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.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

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.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

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.