SOUTH BAY, FLORIDA—
Service Electric Company
Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment more than 30 feet · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Service Electric Company, Highway 27 mile marker 47 holey land wildlife management area 12-14 miles dirt rd, SOUTH BAY, FLORIDA 33493 on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Hip joint(s).
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Final narrative
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.
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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.
REX, GEORGIA—
Service Electric Company
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.
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Service Electric Company
Employees were performing water-based excavation using a hydrovac truck. The stream of pressurized water lacerated an employee's left foot.
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SERVICE ELECTRIC COMPANY
Employees were removing electrical cables for replacement. When one employee cut a cable, the employee was shocked in the abdominal area.
CHULUOTA, FLORIDA—
Service Electric Company
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.
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