AVISTA CORPORATION

An employee was adjusting a scaffold when the scaffold collapsed, causing the employee to fall approximately 145 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and broken bones in their back.

At 1:00 p.m. on September 15, 2022, an employee was on a utility pole disconnecting its cross-arms. The pole broke and the employee fell with it onto adjacent tree branches, then to the ground 30 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for multiple contusions and fractures to the head and torso as well as internal bleeding.

An employee was installing a beam when the other beam he was using as an anchor point for his fall arrest system failed. The employee fell 45 feet to the ground, resulting in broken ribs.

An employee was working on top of an elevator car removing counterweights. The elevator car was being lowered when the coffing hoist holding it up snapped and the elevator car and the employee fell from the 10th floor to the basement. The employee sustained broken bones.

An employee was performing repairs to the fan deck in a cooling tower. Upon entry into the cooling tower, the platform failed and the employee fell approximately 50 feet to the concrete basin at the bottom of the tower. The employee was hospitalized for three fractured vertebrae in the back, fractured tibia bones in both legs, a left elbow fracture, injuries to both knees, internal bleeding, bruised lungs, a concussion, lacerations to the head, and nerve impingement (back).