MP Technologies, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jul 11, 2018 (fatal): Employee is electrocuted while installing power line pole

At 1:00 p.m. on July 11, 2018, Employee #1 and a coworker were installing a new power line pole. As the employee moved the new power line pole, the raised end contacted an energized power line and he was electrocuted.

Incident on Aug 22, 2016 (fatal): Lineman working from a truck bucket is electrocuted

At 1:30 p.m. on August 22, 2016, an employee working from a truck bucket hoist installing an electrical wire spreader arm on an electrical pole at a height of approximately 40 feet made contact with a 12,000 volt live wire. The employee received an electrical shock and was killed.

Incident on Dec 6, 2014 (fatal): Employee contacts power line and is electrocuted

Atapproximately 10:45 a.m. on December 6, 2014, Employee #1 climbed up a power pole and came in contact with power lines and was electrocuted

Incident on Jul 15, 2010 (fatal): Electric shock - contact with overhead line

A power line worker was in an aerial lift, installing new overhead power line co nductors as part of a project to upgrade an existing 12.47-kilovolt overhead pow er line (7.2 kilovolts to ground) to a 34.5-kilovolt line (19.9 kilovolts to gro und). The employee was lifting a new conductor onto a dolly when his spotter saw an electric arc. The power line worker fell to the bottom of the aerial lift bu cket, and the spotter lowered the injured employee to the ground. The employee r eceived cardiopulmonary resuscitation on site and was airlifted to a hospital, w here he died. He had been electrocuted.

Incident on Apr 10, 2008 (fatal): Lineman is killed in fall when pole fails

On April 10, 2008, Employee #1 was on a wooden utility pole replacing circuits a nd installing new power lines. He was secured to the pole. When the pole failed, Employee #1 fell approximately 43 ft and was killed. Unknown to Employee #1 or his coworkers, the pole had been hollowed out by a woodpecker.