Mears Installation LLC

A crew was abandoning a main gas line for a customer. The injured employee was preparing to weld endcaps on the main. To do so, he was installing temporary expandable plugs on the north and south sides of the cutout in the gas main. As he was putting the plug on the south side, the plug from the north side was discharged from the pipe, contacting the employee s left hand and forearm. The employee sustained compound fractures to his forearm and contusions to his hand. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was connecting the tools to the bore drill when the drill rig was turned on. The employee's right foot was amputated.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

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.

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

On August 27, 2025, a service technician was descending a ladder at a service call when his right foot slipped off the ladder rung. The ladder rotated as his weight shifted. The employee lost his footing and fell approximately 8 feet to a concrete lower level. He sustained fractures to his left tibia and left ankle.

A delivery driver was delivering parts at a client site. He fell getting out of the truck cab approximately 5 feet to the concrete ground and broke his femur.

An employee was cleaning off a magnetic table when their right hand brushed against the wheel of a running grinder. The employee sustained an amputation of the middle fingertip and an injury to the ring fingertip with a loss of tissue that required surgery.

An employee was walking on top of shelving units and lost his footing. He fell and hit another shelf and then struck his head on the floor, resulting in a broken wrist and a brain hematoma.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.