Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-28 | Toms River | Nj | OCEAN COUNTY MALL | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was separating lighting on electrical relays. The employee was shocked by wires and fell from a ladder to the ground, suffering a broken hip. | |||||
2020-09-09 | Omaha | Ne | Miller Electric Company | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was troubleshooting an inoperative 277-volt light relay. The employee made contact with an energized component and received an electric shock and burns. | |||||
2020-07-14 | Elkhorn | Wisconsin | Hudapack Metal Treating, Inc. | Head and neck | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was inspecting the inside of an industrial heat treating furnace. A defective relay allowed natural gas to flow into an area of the furnace and the gas was ignited by the radiant tube heating system. The employee was directly in front of a fireball that came from the oven, and sustained second degree burns to the head, face, and neck. | |||||
2017-09-12 | Memphis | Tennessee | Ellis Processing & Material Handling LLC | Head | Struck by object or equipment |
Employees were unloading a barge into a charge truck on the scrap dock. The crane operator was stepping out of the cab to relay a message to a dockhand. When he returned to the cab of the crane his shirt caught on one of the joysticks and pulled the grapple toward the machine. The grapple struck the charge truck driver resulting in a head laceration and contusion resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
2016-05-11 | Armstrong | Texas | Gulf Winds Wind Farm | Thigh(s) | Kneeling, kneeling down-repetitive or prolonged |
The employee was kneeling down in front of a control cabinet for approximately 20 minutes installing and rewiring a relay device. The employee could not get up. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured femur at the hip joint. |