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An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.

Two employees were removing a circuit breaker. The injured employee was using wrenches in the removal process. One of the wrenches contacted an adjacent door, resulting in an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to their neck, face, and ear, as well as momentary vision loss due to the flash.

An employee (a lineman) was working to restore power by installing a hand line when he contacted a high-voltage device (7,200 volts), resulting in electrical burns to his upper body and hands.

An employee was walking when he tripped on a small mound of dirt, fell, and sustained a fractured leg.

An employee was cutting a 3-inch round steel rod with a band saw. Metal became lodged between the blade and the vise; the employee was working to remove it when the sawblade amputated his left ring finger and lacerated his middle and little fingers.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.

A chain sling failed while a utility pole was being removed. A chain link struck an employee who was operating a front-end loader, puncturing the employee's chest.

An employee was setting a rebuilt water pump using a forklift and a chain after inspecting the area where the pump was going to be placed. While the employee's right hand was on a nearby valve flange, the water pump shifted while in the air and struck the employee's right index finger, fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was changing fuel filters on a front-end loader. When he descended the access steps of the engine bay, he misstepped and fell approximately 3 feet to the concrete surface below. The employee sustained a fractured left hip.

An employee was walking in the warehouse when their foot was struck by the forks of an unloaded forklift that was passing by. The employee's foot was fractured.

Employees were pulling three-phase power lines to a power pole. An employee's hand was caught between a pulley and a rope, resulting in amputation of the employee's index, middle, and ring fingertips.

An employee was working with an underground crew to troubleshoot a BUD failure. The employee was removing a fuse from the fuse holder when the fuse blew on the riser and an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his face, nose, lips, and neck.

An employee was using a chain fall to install a liner in a mill. As he was setting the liner in place, his right index finger got stuck in a chain on the rigging, resulting in a fingertip amputation that required hospitalization and a surgical reattachment.

An employee was connecting two wires when his rubber insulated gloves failed and he suffered an electric shock to his right hand, resulting in an electrical burn.

A four-man crew was replacing a crossarm near a street. The injured employee was in a bucket truck unpinning the neutral when the crossarm broke and the primary crossarm above fell onto them. The employee suffered electrical burns to their upper body and both arms.

An employee was performing troubleshooting and maintenance on one of the generators that feed the RF line for glue-laminated timber (glulam) beam production. He was reattaching the outer panel of the generator. A circuit was completed and the employee was electrocuted by the generator and sustained burns. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working with crews to place a power transmission line across an intersection. The outrigger of the employee's bucket truck sank into mud, causing the truck to tip over. The employee then fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left arm and pelvis.

An employee was preparing to work on a new power line installation when an energized power line contacted his hands. The employee sustained an electrical shock and burns to his hands.

An employee was making a delivery at a customer's site. He was taking a box out of the truck and stepping back when he stepped off the dock and fell, landing on his hip. The employee sustained a fractured hip.

On September 15, 2025, at approximately 5:00 PM, a five-person crew of line workers was installing new insulators on a transmission line that was de-energized and grounded. The injured employee was shocked by induced voltage and sustained burns to the palms of both hands.

A waste water technician was retrieving a tool to adjust a gauge on a water pump when a copperhead snake bit the employee's right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was replacing a water check valve at a water plant. He was lifting the valve with two hands when it slipped and contacted his right ring finger, resulting in a partial amputation without bone loss.

An employee was climbing down an extension ladder from a residential roof. The ladder collapsed under his foot, and he fell backward onto the grass. He suffered a sprained neck, a fractured scapula, and fractures to his T7 and T12 vertebrae.

An employee was cutting through two secondary wires with a battery-powered cutting tool. The wires were energized at 120/240 volts; when the employee cut through the insulation around a wire, an arc flash burned the employee's left thumb.

An employee was walking across a store room looking for a part when they slipped on water and fell, resulting in a muscle sprain in their upper-right leg with a venous bleed.