Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified

Name: Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified at AEP Ohio
Start: 11/21/2024

1 hospitalization · 20241110850 · 11/21/2024 · AEP Ohio

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Eye(s)
Nature of injury: Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified

Cause

Event: Contact incidents unspecified
Source: Power lines, transformers, convertors
Secondary source: Source, secondary source unspecified

Employer

Name: AEP Ohio
Location: 4909 Westerville Rd, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43231
NAICS: 221122
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee bent down to retrieve a tool from a bucket when a concentric neutral wire that was peeled back from an underground cable being spliced contacted their left eye. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown