Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Saber Power Services, LLC, 2685 West Audie Murphy Pkwy, FARMERSVILLE, TEXAS 75442
on — Fractures , affecting the Hand(s), except finger(s).
Final narrative
An employee was pulling a 3-conductor cable for a mounted camera through a 1-inch conduit. The cable pulley used to support the cable was secured to the pole using mule tape. The mule tape failed and the pulley fell approximately 8 feet, striking the employee in the right hand and resulting in fractured metacarpal bones and a laceration.
An employee was operating an aerial lift to install flange mechanical cable positioners onto insulators on a de-energized transformer. An arc flash occurred when the aerial lift came near the energized jumpers resulting in electrical burns to the employee's right arm and torso.
An employee was loading tools into a bucket truck. Upon stepping off the rear of the truck, he lost his footing and slipped. As he was falling, his right hand slid down the grab rail and got caught. The employee's right little finger was amputated.
An employee was troubleshooting a door switch and motor on a variable frequency drive. An arc flash burned the employee's left hand. He was hospitalized.
An employee was adjusting a cable roller used to pull a nylon rope through a conduit when the nylon rope lost tension and came loose, striking and amputating the employee's right thumb to the first knuckle.
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 helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.
An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.
An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.
An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.
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.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.