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

IGNACIO, COLORADO—

ALTITUDE ENERGY LLC

Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts · Third or fourth degree electrical burns

Final narrative

An electrical powerline crew was pulling in a neutral wire when it became bound up on a pole, causing the pole to pull over slightly before the pull was stopped. One of the employees went up in a bucket to try to free the neutral wire. While he was holding the wire with one hand, his shoulder contacted the bottom of an energized cutout directly above where he was working. He suffered a 7,400-volt shock that caused third-degree burns to the fingers on his left hand and his shoulder and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c. Power lines, transformers, convertors

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