New Castle, PA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Bruce and Merrilees Electric Company
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Bruce and Merrilees Electric Company in 930 Cass St., New Castle, PA 16101 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was journeyman Electrician in electrical work.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Bruce and Merrilees Electric Company
- Parent company
- Bruce and Merrilees Electric Company
- Street
- 930 Cass St.
- City
- New Castle
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 16101
- On-site location
- Breaker room - Danville, PA
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 135
Before the incident
Servicing a 480 breaker and was at the point where it needed to be re-racked to the bus
What happened
The employee had to push the charging handle of the breaker down in order to rack it. Once it was pushed down he thought it had cammed over and released it with his right hand. It had not and was still under tension and the handle came up and struck the back of his hand that was placed on the breaker to gain leverage.
Injury or illness
Fractured bone within the left hand near the thumb area
Object or substance involved
Charging handle of a 480 breaker
Summary line
Hand was struck with a 480v breaker charging handle when it recoiled while racking the breaker
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Journeyman Electrician
- SOC code
- 47-2111: Electricians
- NAICS code
- 238210: Electrical work
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 389
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 731,690
- EIN
- 250957436
- Establishment ID
- 1265686
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 16:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-20
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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