| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-16 | Throckmorton | Tx | Nordex USA, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing down a fixed ladder on a wind turbine tower. He fell and landed on a platform on the tower level below, suffering head trauma, a broken leg, and loss of consciousness. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-15 | Minco | Ok | Blattner Energy, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was aligning the butt section of a wind turbine when his left middle finger was struck by the reaction arm when it extended, resulting in amputation to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2021-07-22 | Sulphur | Ok | Pearce Renewables, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a saw to cut a wind turbine blade for recycling. The saw kicked back and lacerated the employee's upper right chest. | |||||
| 2021-06-05 | Baird | Tx | Blattner Energy Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a torquing tool to torque down bolts on the blades in a wind turbine. As he began to tighten a nut, his finger became caught between the torquing tool and the wall of the hub. The employee sustained an avulsion fracture to a finger. | |||||
| 2021-02-12 | Palo Pinto | Tx | Brazos Electric Power Co-Op | Multiple body parts | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was troubleshooting an electric generation turbine when fuel oil ignited, burning the employee's arms and torso. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-02-04 | Kaukauna | Wi | Roskom Meats, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was on top of a meat stuffer pushing ground meat through the funnel into plastic tubing when the machine was turned on causing the plastic turbine to contact the employee's right hand and amputated two fingertips. | |||||
| 2021-01-22 | Buzzards Bay | Ma | Harvest Energy Services Inc. | Hip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was working inside the hub of a wind turbine, tightening bolts for the fan blades, when he suffered a crushing injury from an accumulator. His hip was broken and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-10-01 | Los Fresnos | Tx | Nordex USA Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was checking a safety valve in a wind turbine hub. The valve separated from the mechanism and struck the employee's hand, causing a 2 1/2-inch laceration. | |||||
| 2020-09-25 | Wingate | Tx | Horse Hollow Wind LLC | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was working on a wind turbine when an arc flash burned their hands and back. | |||||
| 2020-06-09 | Wellsville | Ohio | Wellsville Construction Company, LLC | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| A carpenter apprentice was assisting in building a form for a turbine pit when he fell approximately 5 feet to the concrete below. He landed on his left arm and sustained a broken humerus and elbow. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | Seymour | Texas | Run Energy | Head, neck, and trunk | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was walking into a wind tower to check on a restart failure inside the cabinet at the base of the wind turbine. An arc flash caused burns to the employee's chest, neck, and face. | |||||
| 2020-06-01 | Lamar | Colorado | FieldCore Service Solutions, LLC | Forearm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was tucking cables into an electrical cabinet up the tower on a wind turbine when he was electrically shocked, suffering burns to the left forearm that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-05-09 | Lamar | Colorado | FieldCore Service Solutions, LLC | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was troubleshooting an electrical circuit in an electrical cabinet at the base of a wind turbine when an arc flash occurred, causing second degree burns to the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2020-05-01 | Westfield | Pennsylvania | One Wind Services Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was torqueing bolts with a hydraulic torque wrench inside a wind turbine. The employee was reaching to clear plastic debris from between the bolt and the wrench when the wrench actuated, crushing his right little finger and ring finger. He suffered an amputation to the little finger (6 millimeters from the nail); the injury to the ring finger required stitches. | |||||
| 2019-08-15 | Seiling | Oklahoma | Seiling Wind I, LLC and Seiling Wind II, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| While working on a wind turbine, an employee suffered heat exhaustion. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-07-16 | Bridgeport | Washington | U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was working above a turbine. The employee fell about 15 feet, suffering a broken pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-06-28 | Horizon City | Texas | Kinder Morgan Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was cleaning oil off the floor of a turbine unit with a pressure washer at a compressor station when he began to feel dizzy and later experienced headaches. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2019-06-01 | Moran | Kansas | B & M Energy and Infrastructure | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was up a tower in a wind turbine. A metal plate (a blade access cover) moved, causing the employee to fall about 7-10 feet into the inside of a blade. The employee suffered internal abdominal injuries. | |||||
| 2019-05-24 | Rio Hondo | Texas | One Wind Services Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating a lift inside a wind turbine. He was outside of the lift when it moved and crushed his left arm between it and a rung. His arm broke and required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-04-18 | Petersburg | Texas | Wanzek Construction | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| While cleaning inside a wind turbine tower, an employee stepped through an open access hatch and fell to the deck below. The employee sustained fractures to the face, arms and legs. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-03-22 | Spearville | Kansas | Kansas City Power and Light Co. | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| On Friday, March 22, 2019, two employees were lowering material in a wind turbine after repairing a turbine motor. A 6-foot-long tool fell from more than 90 feet up, striking an employee on the ground and causing head trauma. | |||||
| 2019-03-04 | Grand Forks | North Dakota | LM Wind Power Blades (ND), Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was repairing the inside of a turbine blade when he fell onto a sharp edge protruding from the work surface. The employee sustained a laceration to his right arm requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | Muenster | Texas | Airway Services, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a wind turbine generator. Their jacket was caught on a turning gear pulling his right arm into the gears and causing a crushing injury and laceration to the right arm. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Eldorado | Texas | Blattner Energy | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was installing an electrical box when the employee's foot was caught between a free spinning turbine and the counterweight and main bearing of a piece of machinery, causing the amputation of five toes. | |||||
| 2018-04-15 | Tonawanda | New York | Energy Resource Group | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was using a cart to push a turbine diaphragm out of a temporary sandblasting tent when the wheels encountered sandblasting grit on the floor, which stopped the progress of the cart. When the cart stopped, the weight shifted, causing it to tip over and the diaphragm to fall on the employee’s right leg, breaking it. | |||||
| 2017-09-29 | Raymondville | Texas | Bruenning's Breeze Wind Farm, LLC | Multiple body parts | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was monitoring a tag line while a blade of a wind turbine was being hoisted in the air. The tag line came undone and struck the employee in the chest sending the employee 15 feet in the air. The employee suffered two skull fractures, two broken arms, a neck fracture, and a broken rib. | |||||
| 2017-09-21 | El Indio | Texas | Superior Energy Well Services Division | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to latch an elevator on a turbine. The elevator did not latch properly and opened/came off the joint turbine. When the employee tried to re-align the turbine, his thumb was caught and fractured between the turbine and the elevator. | |||||
| 2017-09-13 | Snyder | Texas | GEV Wind Power US, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
| An employee was climbing a permanent ladder inside a wind turbine. The employee was wearing a fall harness attached to a climb assist mechanism. The employee's foot became tangled and he slipped off the ladder falling 6 inches. The injured employee was hospitalized for a muscle strain. | |||||
| 2017-06-26 | Houston | Texas | Siemens Generation Services | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was installing a gas turbine inter-stage seal ring. He was hand tightening a bolt when a coworker moved the seal ring by contacting a chain fall, causing the seal ring's sharp edge to contact and de-glove the employee's right index fingertip on the pad side. | |||||
| 2017-05-03 | Borger | Texas | Phillips 66 | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was clearing the pump to get the turbine ready for maintenance. While flushing the heavy coker gas oil (HCGO) pump, some HCGO got reintroduced into the pipe. When the hot oil (700 degrees) touched the water in the sewer drain, it flashed back and burned the employee. The employee suffered second degree burns to the abdomen and third degree burns to both hands and knees. | |||||
| 2017-04-18 | Hallsville | Texas | Sky Power Turbine Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee, who was observing a boring operation taking place inside a turbine shell, was sitting on planks (located on the horizontal joints of the turbine) and repositioning in order to stand inside the turbine where it would not be slippery when the boring bar caught and crushed the employee's right thumb. | |||||
| 2017-03-09 | West Monroe | Louisiana | Graphic Packaging International | Arm(s) | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was working on a turbine to connect a dehumidifier to a generator unit. A localized flash-fire occurred resulting in burns to both of the employee's arms and a contusion on the left side of his head. | |||||
| 2017-01-23 | Fort Lauderdale | Florida | Vortex AviationInc. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was inspecting an aircraft engine while kneeling behind it. He put his hand on the rear part of a non-operating engine to pick himself up when the turbine spun and lacerated his gloved left hand between his ring and little finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-11 | Concordia | Kansas | Vestas-American Wind Technology Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was conducting maintenance on the nacelle of the wind turbine when he slipped and fell onto a stair, landing on his right-side ribcage and suffering a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2016-07-03 | Cunningham | Kansas | Wind Composite Services Group, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| An employee was measuring wind turbine blades on a scaffold when the scaffold hoist malfunctioned, causing the employee to fall approximately 140 feet to the ground and suffer severe body injuries. | |||||
| 2016-04-28 | Montezuma | Kansas | Next Era Energy Resources, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was installing a torque arm onto a wind turbine gearbox on the ground. While he was attempting to insert the pin into the bushing, the pin dislodged and allowed the 50-pound torque arm to drop. The employee attempted to catch the torque arm, and his right thumb tip was caught in the pinhole as the arm fell to the ground, amputating thumb flesh (no bone). | |||||
| 2016-03-03 | Montezuma | Kansas | WGC Gray County Wind | Lower leg(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| Employees were preparing to remove a gear box from a wind turbine when an employee's lower left leg was struck and lacerated by high-pressure hydraulic fluid, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-10-19 | Sarita | Texas | Iberdrola Renewables Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| While conducting wind turbine maintenance operations, an employee slipped, striking and bruising his upper right leg on a turbine support structure. | |||||
| 2015-08-25 | Montz | Louisiana | Prudhomme's Maintenance Service, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
| An employee was walking across the turbine deck (on the third floor) and tripped on a piece of uneven concrete. As he was falling forward, he put both of his arms out to catch himself and broke both of his arms. | |||||
| 2015-07-24 | Ashley | North Dakota | Ingeteam, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was exposed to moving parts while removing the lockout pin during servicing operations on a wind turbine power generator. The employee suffered a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2015-06-11 | Wilsonville | Alabama | Day Zimmerman | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking in the turbine floor of the boiler area and struck his head on an overhanging pipe and fell to the floor breaking his right femur. | |||||
| 2015-04-27 | Melbourne | Florida | Midair USA, Inc. | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee's left hand and wrist were cut while trying to stop a turbine blade. | |||||