Asheville, NC ·
OSHA Injury Report: Blue Ridge Power
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Blue Ridge Power in 105 Fairview Road, Asheville, NC 28803 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was racking Installer in alternative energy (e.g., geothermal, ocean wave, solar, wind) structure construction.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Blue Ridge Power
- Parent company
- Blue Ridge Power, LLC.
- Street
- 105 Fairview Road
- City
- Asheville
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28803
- On-site location
- Array
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
The employee was working as part of a 4 man team attached to the Racking Crew putting up the [REDACTED] Changer tubes onto the piles.
What happened
One of the workers of the four man team slipped on a root covered in mud. This motion caused that worker to suddenly lower his end of the tube. The tube was approximately 30 feet long. This motion also caused the opposite end of the tube to suddenly raise in a upward motion. The sudden upwards motion on the opposite end caused the tube to strike the effected employee in the mouth on the left side of his upper lip which caused a laceration.
Injury or illness
Laceration to lip from strike by racking tube.
Object or substance involved
racking tube
Summary line
Laceration to lip from strike by racking tube.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Racking Installer
- SOC code
- 47-2231: Solar Photovoltaic Installers
- NAICS code
- 237130: Alternative energy (e.g., geothermal, ocean wave, solar, wind) structure construction
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 897
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 3,068,996
- Establishment ID
- 977216
- Employer case #
- Cane Creek
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 13:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-29
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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