WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN—
SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc.
Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc., 400 South Prairie Avenue, WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN 53186 on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was working on top of a powered scaffold, adjusting the rigging for a transformer coil assembly. He fell between the unit and the scaffold platform to the floor 11 feet, 10 inches below. He was hospitalized.
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WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN—
SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc.
An employee had attached crane rigging to a transformer coil and was adjusting an outrigger block. The crane activated and the employee's left thumb was caught between the crane block and the rigging. The thumb tip was amputated.
WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN—
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An employee's finger was amputated when a scissor lift raised up into a beam.
WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN—
SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc.
An employee and a coworker were positioning a wood panel on the bed of a milling machine when the coworker turned on the milling machine vacuum system. The vacuum sucked the wood panel down into the milling machine, and the panel pinched and amputated the employee's right middle fingertip between it and the milling machine bed.
KENNER, LOUISIANA—
SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc.
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