Struck By Incidents Struck By Incidents Company Harlan McPhee North McPhee South Powerhawke Ravex Richards Company Using the Form Job Name * Job Name and/or Number Date * Struck By Incidents In addressing the high hazard sources of injuries for Phalcon, let’s review some our injuries associated with being struck by objects and the lessons learned from them. An employee was running MC cable in the ceiling on a 6' ladder and another employee was mounting wire mold boxes on the floor. While the first employee was pulling MC wire over a piece of grid T, one of the pieces fell out and hit the second employee in the head. He was working on his knees, looking down when a piece of grid T approximately 24" long hit his hard hat first, making it fall off his head, then the sharp edges of the grid T landed on the back of his head, making a long and deep laceration, on the back middle of his head approximately 1.5" long. This resulted in an OSHA record-able injury. Lesson Learned: Never work underneath anyone, whether it is our employee or the employee of another trade. An OSHA record-able injury was sustained when an employee was struck by the mirror of a passing site vehicle. A group of electricians was standing outside, adjacent the trailer for their morning tailboard / pre-task plan, when a passing site pickup trucks mirror struck our employee in the shoulder. Lesson Learned: While the operator of the vehicle is always responsible for keeping clear of pedestrians, a better location for their morning meeting would have eliminated the hazard. An employee was installing a new feed to a transformer. He set up his ladder to demo the existing conduit. He placed the large set of channel lock pliers on top of the ladder while doing his work. He eventually came down from the ladder he forgot the bigger channel locks on the top of the ladder. He folded the ladder and placed it against the wall, the channel locks didn't fall at first so he went to grab tools. He proceeded to move the ladder a second time when he leaned the ladder towards himself and at this moment the channel locks fell and struck his face (upper lip). This resulted in an OSHA record-able injury. Lesson Learned: Never leave tools or material on top of a ladder. An employee was standing by a trench. A machine from another trade turned quickly and hit employee in the back knocking him to the ground. Employee was hit in the left shoulder blade. The employee suffered a torn rotator cuff and required surgery making it an OSHA record-able injury. Lesson Learned: Always make eye contact with the operator to ensure that he knows where you are. Stay out of the swing radius of equipment. It is best if the operator ropes/flags off this area alerting employees to stay out. An electrician was working in a hand-hole adjacent to a substation control house. The task was to install a 4” PVC conduit into a previously core drilled hole in the side of the hand hole. The aluminum diamond plate hand-hole cover was removed and propped up against the side of the control house. The wind blew the cover over, striking the wire-man causing a scratch on his cheek and a laceration to his nose. This resulted in an injury that needed 3 stitches, making it an OSHA record-able injury. Lesson Learned: Situational Awareness. Look around your work area for potential hazards. Think worst case and do what you can to protect yourself from those hazards. An employee suffered laceration to left upper lip area while pulling wire out of a junction box. The Wire being pulled through the junction box got caught or bound on something, either in the junction box or inside the 2” pipe. As the employee began to pull harder the wire broke free at a rapid pace striking him in the upper left lip. This resulted in an OSHA record-able injury as he received 6 stitches in his upper left lip. Lesson Learned: Situational Awareness, Be aware of your actions and possible consequences. Think worst case. As you can see, there are many different ways to be injured from being struck by things. Be aware of your surroundings. Use the 20/20/20 rule to help with this. Take 20 seconds when you first get to your work area to evaluate it for existing hazards and then every 20 minutes after that, stop and take 20 seconds to look 20 feet around you to see if anything has changed or new hazards have been introduced. 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