Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at UGI Utilities, Inc., President Road and Springfield Avenue, HANOVER TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA 18706
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was performing work on a transformer pad approximately 10 feet from a roadway when they slipped on ice and fell, resulting in a fractured leg that required hospitalization.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedStructures and surfaces, n.e.c.
An employee was walking while at a customer location when they slipped on a step and fell to the ground, resulting in a bruised kidney that required hospitalization.
An employee was kneeling to turn off a valve at a gas meter. When he stood up, he felt pain in his neck, back, and legs. The employee then fell to the ground.
UGI employees were doing excavation work on a the shoulder of a two-lane residential street. One of them was standing in front of a barrier vehicle, in place to protect the work area. A pickup truck struck the barrier vehicle. The employee's right hand was broken and lacerated, either by debris from the barrier vehicle or from the pickup truck's passenger-side mirror.
An employee was standing near a roadway when a passing tractor trailer struck an overhead line, causing a temporary traffic light to fall and strike the employee. The employee suffered a fractured pelvis/hip.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
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An employee (a lineman) was working to restore power by installing a hand line when he contacted a high-voltage device (7,200 volts), resulting in electrical burns to his upper body and hands.
A chain sling failed while a utility pole was being removed. A chain link struck an employee who was operating a front-end loader, puncturing the employee's chest.
An employee was working with an underground crew to troubleshoot a BUD failure. The employee was removing a fuse from the fuse holder when the fuse blew on the riser and an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his face, nose, lips, and neck.
An employee was connecting two wires when his rubber insulated gloves failed and he suffered an electric shock to his right hand, resulting in an electrical burn.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.