Service Electric Company

Employee 1 had just finished disassembling a metal girder structure on the ground and had removed the bolts from its metal cross brace. Employee 1 then moved to the left side of the structure. Employee 2 was using a skid steer to pick up the metal cross brace. Once the cross brace was on the forks of the skid steer, employee 1's right leg was caught between the cross brace and the metal girder structure. Employee 1 was hospitalized with a fractured right leg, which required surgery to repair.

Employees were replacing an overhead utility line switch with a new set of switchgear. The injured employee was tightening a bolt to complete the last step of the work when an arc flash occurred and the employee was shocked.

Employees were in a mobile crane when it collapsed. They fell approximately100 feet to the ground and two employees were hospitalized. One employee sustained a hip injury and the other employee sustained a lung injury.

Employees were removing electrical cables for replacement. When one employee cut a cable, the employee was shocked in the abdominal area.

The employee was rigging a towing strap to a front-end loader to tow a truck out of the mud and onto matting. The front-end loader moved while the employee's thumb was between the vertical drop pin and the tow bar of the front-end loader, resulting in a partial thumb tip amputation.

An employee was installing wood trim surrounding a skylight inside a home. While holding a piece of trim in it's desired location, his pneumatic nail gun discharged, sending a 3/4-inch pin nail into his left forearm.

An employee removed a safety valve on a trailer that unknowingly contained nitrogen gas. The gas released from the trailer and pushed the employee backward off a scaffold approximately 10 feet before they struck a garage door, resulting in a pelvic injury.

An employee was sitting at her workstation when a nail gun malfunctioned and shot a nail into her left leg. She suffered a puncture and blood vessel injury and was hospitalized.

On November 25, 2023, an employee was using a high-pressured water hose to perform sewer line cleaning operations. The employee's right little finger and palm were lacerated by pressurized water from the hose.

An employee was hydroblasting when they slipped and the pressurized water stream lacerated their left ankle.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.