105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

PENNINGTON, ALABAMA—

Edwards Electric Service, LLC

Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified · Fractures

Final narrative

A crew of employees had completed pulling a 1,000 foot run of 4/0 insulated ground cable into a cable tray. The employees at the bottom of the tray were tailing the cable in and began to tie into another cable tray. The injured employee was securing the cable that had just been installed and was located about halfway down the conveyor of the 1,000 foot run. The cable that had been pulled into the tray, began to fall out of the tray and struck his left hand, smashing it against the cable tray, resulting in a broken thumb and a laceration between the left thumb and forefinger.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Electric parts, unspecified

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