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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

E&M Services, LLC

Indirect exposure to electricity greater than 220 volts · Electrocution, electric shock

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at E&M Services, LLC, County Road 139, SIDNEY, MONTANA 59270 on — Electrocution, electric shock, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

An employee was using a hydro-excavation truck on a cattle guard when the boom touched a 7,200-volt power line. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Power lines, transformers, convertors

E & M Services LLC

An employee was unloading pipes from a trailer. A pipe (3.5 inch in diameter) rolled off the trailer and struck the employee's legs. The employee sustained a right leg fracture.

E & M Services LLC

An employee was performing maintenance and starting a gas plant by turning the valves when a flash fire and explosion occurred. He suffered burn injuries to his hands and face.

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Paul Conard Construction Co., Inc

An employee was guiding the pouring end of a concrete pump truck's boom while standing on top of 4-foot wall forms. The boom contacted power lines and the employee was shocked. The employee sustained third-degree burns on the entry and exit path of the electricity, and also sustained first- and second-degree burns to their torso and legs.

Great Plains Health Urgent Care

An employee was cleaning a laptop charging cable when lightning struck. The employee began experiencing heart palpitations and hearing loss, resulting in hospitalization.

Bowman Energy Services LLC

An employee was acting as a spotter for a forklift operator. While its forks were being raised, the forklift came into contact with a power line. The employee was touching the forklift's metal frame at the time and was shocked on the left palm. The employee suffered burns to both the left palm and the sole of the left foot.

Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete, LLC

A Smyrna Ready Mix delivery driver was delivering concrete to a job site. He backed his truck up to a pump truck, then began preparing it to transfer the concrete. The pump truck's boom moved and came into contact with a power line, which broke and fell onto the employee's delivery truck. The employee was knocked to the ground and suffered electrical burns to both arms and both feet.

Riggs Tree Service, LLC

An employee was clearing a right-of-way for utility lines when a small sapling was cut and fell, causing vines to pull a tree down and into power lines. The vines also became electrified and were contacting the employee's feet, shocking them. The employee became ill and experienced slurred speech and convulsions, resulting in hospitalization.

3S Services, LLC

An employee had been cleaning the work area. While lifting a saw, the employee's index finger was lacerated by the saw blade. A tendon was cut and required surgery.

Roby's Propane Gas

An employee was delivering home heating fuel when bees came from the ground and stung the employee's face, neck, torso, and hands. The employee proceeded to shut off the oil flow before losing consciousness. They were hospitalized due to an anaphylactic reaction.

Myers Trucking, Inc.

An employee was using a torch to loosen a bolt on a water trailer. Natural gas was present in the water and it ignited, causing a fire. The employee sustained third-degree burns to their upper leg.

Weatherford U.S., L.P.

An employee had been conducting crane operations. The employee went to stop a piece of oil and gas equipment for tubular running from falling over to the ground. Their right hand was caught between a rolling ladder and the equipment, resulting in fractures to the index and middle fingers. They were hospitalized and the middle finger required surgery.

Helmerich & Payne IDC Inc

An employee was working to install a drive belt on a water pump. He was holding the belt on both sides of the pulley, working to route it over the top. As he pulled down with his right hand, the pulley rotated and the belt slid over it, pulling his left little finger between the pulley and the belt. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip as well as a fracture to the ring finger.

Big Sky Wholesale Seed, Inc.

An employee was fixing an issue with seed cleaning equipment when he slipped on the ladder he was on. He went to catch himself and his hand went into a moving belt and pulley on the cleaner. The employee sustained the amputation of his right middle and index fingertips just below the fingernails.

Turner Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) to move a bison herd. He was riding up the side of a steep hill when the ATV struck a rock and rolled, ejecting the employee before rolling over him. The employee suffered broken vertebrae in his back that required hospitalization.

Jonas Sprinklers and Fertilizer

An employee was clearing out dirt from an underground pipe when he was bitten by a rattlesnake on his hand.

Pasta Montana, LLC

An employee was climbing in the spreader area to remove a pasta jam when his right little finger was cut by the rotary cut-off knife. The employee sustained a laceration and fracture, resulting in an amputation.

USDA Forest Service Ranger Station

A smoke jumper parachuted out of a helicopter during a forest fire response, landed on steep rugged terrain, and suffered femur and rib fractures and a liver laceration. The employee was hospitalized.