Creative Communication Technologies, Inc: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jan 26, 2013: Employee falls from stepladder, fractures arm

At approximately 11:30 a.m. on January 26, 2013, Employee #1, a technician with Creative Communication Technologies Inc., was installing cable TV and phone line s outside a private residence. Employee #1 fell off a six ft tall aluminum ladde r to the ground below and sustained a broken right leg. Employee #1 was transpor ted to the hospital, where he was hospitalized for over 24 hours for treatment.

Incident on Jan 16, 2001: Electric shock - direct contact with energized conductor

A cable television installer was working alone in the attic of an old motel. He contacted an exposed portion of some old wiring in the attic as he was crawling past the wiring. He received an electric shock and was unable to pull himself fr ee. The electric shock lasted several minutes until a coworker, who heard his cr ies for help over a cellular radio, arrived at the site and had the circuit deen ergized. The injured employee was hospitalized for 2 days. More than 2 weeks aft er the accident, his right arm was still cramping and not functioning properly. Before the accident, the injured employee had asked about the old wiring, some o f which had lost its insulation. The motel operator told him that the motel had been rewired and that the old wiring was not energized. The employee assumed tha t the old wiring was deenergized without testing it. He had a volt-ohmmeter at t he site, but his employer, a cable installation contractor, did not have a work rule requiring the testing of such wiring. The contractor had been in business f or 15 months, and the employee had worked for the contractor for 8 months. The e mployee had a total of 5 years of experience in cable television installations.