| 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. | |||||
| 2021-01-22 | 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. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | 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. | |||||
| 2019-06-01 | 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. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 2017-09-13 | 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 2015-07-24 | 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. | |||||