Blattner Energy, LLC

An employee was painting in the middle section of a tower when she fell 70 feet through the hatch. The employee was hospitalized with arm fractures.

Two employees were working from inside a man basket attached to a forklift. While attaching the tail rigging to one of the turbine blades, the man basket attached to the forklift failed, causing the employees to fall approximately 20 feet to the ground. One employee sustained fractures to their left foot and right femur and shin, as well as dislocations to their right knee and left shoulder. The other employee was not injured.

An employee was climbing a ladder and guiding a cable through openings and hatches in a tower. The employee was caught on the cable and pulled into the bottom edge of a deck/hatch opening, suffering a head injury and a concussion.

An employee was testing pile depth and installing L-brackets. He tripped and fell headfirst into a piling (a metal I-beam driven into the ground to support solar panels) while carrying a 60-pound magnetic drill. He was wearing a hardhat and sustained back pain and hip pain.

An employee was picking up trash when they experienced heat-related syncope. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

An employee was working to start an aerator machine on the front lawn of the customer's property. They pulled the starter cord of the machine and sustained an electrical shock to their right arm/hand.

An employee was cutting pipe using a saw when she received an electrical shock from the power tool. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was adjusting the height of an ultraviolet (UV) lamp. She was electrocuted by the UV machine. She sustained burns on her left hand and an entry wound on the right forearm. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was shocked while turning on a circuit breaker for a dishwasher that needed repair. The employee was hospitalized.

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.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.