| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-28 | Lake Village | Ar | EVERS ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| Employees were tracing a line of a transformer to conduct repair after the transformer had been struck by lightning. The transformer was for an irrigation machine. Employees dug a ditch and found that there was another primary line which was damaged and not in use. The injured employee was checking this line with a low voltage meter. When he checked the second phase, an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his left hand. | |||||
| 2020-04-15 | Destin | Florida | Heart Utilities of Jacksonville, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was replacing an old fuse cutout in order to install a trip saver. A lightning arrester failed, causing an electrical arc. The employee suffered first- and second-degree burns to the arms and face. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-11 | Point Comfort | Texas | Bay LTD | Foot (feet) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was descending from a crane boom due to incoming rain when lightning struck the crane boom. The employee sustained burns to the feet. | |||||
| 2019-08-15 | Gulf Shores | Alabama | R & S Paving & Grading, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| As a pipe-laying job site was being closed up, an employee was struck by lightning. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-17 | Humble | Texas | Alcott Inc. | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was waiting out a storm in his work truck but had to use a nearby portable toilet. While he was in the portable toilet, a lightning strike occurred approximately 50 feet away. He collapsed after coming out of the toilet. He suffered a concussion and brain swelling, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-07-08 | Delray Beach | Florida | LATITE ROOFING AND SHEET METAL, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee had left a roof during a lightning storm and was entering his work van. Lightning struck the ground and the employee was shocked as he entered the van. | |||||
| 2019-06-29 | Teague | Texas | Navasota Valley Electric Cooperative | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was climbing down from a tree after cutting a limb when he was struck by lightning, suffering burns. | |||||
| 2019-06-06 | San Antonio | Texas | Mel Stevenson & Associates, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was struck by lightning while unloading shingles onto a residential roof. The employee sustained burns. | |||||
| 2019-02-07 | Houston | Texas | North Houston Pole Line | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was changing out the insulator on a buswork at a substation. An energized lightning arrester shocked the employee, causing burns to the left hand. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-12 | Fort Lauderdale | Florida | Volt Power LLC | Head and trunk | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee cut the wire of a lightning arrester. The hot wire then made contact with a metal bracket and a flash occurred, causing thermal burns to the employee's face and chest. | |||||
| 2018-07-06 | Athens | Alabama | Artisan Masonry Corp. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was struck by lightning while walking to his vehicle, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-06-11 | Margate | Florida | POTTER'S PROFESSIONAL LAWN CARE, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was struck by lightning as he was returning to his car to seek shelter. | |||||
| 2017-08-23 | Houston | Texas | Richard Stevedoring & Logistics | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| Two employees were working on a barge near a dock. They were receiving steel plates from the pier using a shore crane when they were struck by lightning. Both were hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-07-22 | Fort Myers | Florida | WGA NAVSTAR AVIATION USA INC. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was disconnecting an airplane's communication cables when lightning struck the plane. He suffered severe burns to his hands and feet. | |||||
| 2017-06-04 | Perry | Florida | Doctors' Memorial Hospital, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| On June 4, 2017, at 5:40 p.m., an employee was unloading a patient from the back of an ambulance. While he was holding onto the door of the ambulance, lightning struck the vehicle. He suffered respiratory arrest and lost consciousness, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-09-27 | Naples | Florida | Rucos Concrete, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| On 9/27/2016, at approximately 3:44 p.m., an employee was performing foundation concrete forming work when he was struck by lightning and suffered burns, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-08-15 | Burleson | Texas | Bonded Lightning Protection Systems, Ltd. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off a ladder while installing lightning protection on the roof, fracturing a left rib, the left tibia, and an ankle. | |||||
| 2016-07-06 | Eupora | Mississippi | Natchez Trace Electric Power Association | Arm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was working from a bucket truck to install a fuse contact and a lightning arrestor on a wood pole when he made contact with 14.4 kV line, suffering electrical burns to the left and right arms. | |||||
| 2016-07-05 | Gainesville | Georgia | Pike Electric, LLC | Face | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was replacing a 40-foot pole and was installing a lightning arrester when the arrester failed, resulting in second degree flash burns to the left side of his face. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-06-11 | Sundown | Texas | Bryant Electric | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was replacing an old lightning arrester with a new one. The new arrestor began to move, so the employee reached over to stop it. The employee's left elbow then came into contact with an energized line, causing an electrical shock. | |||||
| 2016-02-22 | Conyers | Georgia | SNAPPING SHOALS ENERGY MANAGEMENT COMPANY | Head and neck | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| On February 22, 2016, at approximately 6:05 p.m., an employee was covering overhead lines with blankets and hoses to replace damaged lightning arrestors when an electrical arc occurred. The arc caused first degree burns to the employee's face and neck, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-01-27 | Naples | Florida | MAsTec Services Company, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity |
| An employee was working to replace a lightning arrester( electrical distribution work). When the tool he was using came in proximity to an energized jumper coming from the top of the lightning arrester, an arc flash occurred. | |||||
| 2015-10-07 | Andrews | Texas | Tessco Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was in a bucket truck installing a lightning arrestor and was shocked. | |||||
| 2015-05-19 | Kettering | Ohio | Siemens Building Technology | Knee(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On or about May 19, 2015, an employee exiting a roof onto a ladder was impaled in the back of the knee by a lightning rod. | |||||