Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 70,589Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

Penelec

Other fall to lower level unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Penelec, Altoona Water Authority Shop, ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA 16601 on , Fractures, affecting the leg(s) unspecified.

Watch Penelec for free Get an email when a new federal OSHA severe-injury report for Penelec is published. One employer, no account, unsubscribe in one click.

An employee was on the back of a pickup truck helping to unspool wire from a large wire reel. The employee was exiting the truck, tripped over the elevated lift on the back of the truck and fell. As he was falling he jumped to avoid a partially lowered liftgate. His right foot landed on the asphalt and his left foot landed in a ground cable trench, resulting in multiple fractures to his left leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s) unspecified Pickup truck