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Safety Report July 2019

Incidents Reported Date Injury Description: Causes: Prevention: mop handle slipped out of rubber portion New mops without moving parts on handle. Wear and metal part slid out causing a deep cut 6-3-19 Cut Condition of equipment gloves. to the right hand palm between thumb and pointer finger. While heating copper pipe to temp, employee reached across hot copper pipe Wear leathers or long sleeves when soldering or doing 6-5-19 Burn Lack of PPE and his forearm made contact with the hot work. pipe resulting in a 2nd degree burn.

Monthly and Year to Date 2018 June YTD Total Incidents Reported 2 20 Recordable Case(s) 0 5 Restricted Duty Case(s) 0 2 Lost Workday Case(s) 0 3

Vehicle Incidents Date Vehicle Driver’s Account: Prevention ​Warehousemen was rotating stock, The forks on the forklift stuck 6-3-15 T-156 through further than he thought, and caught the next transformer, Use a spotter or get off and check forks for clearance before lifting. causing it to tip over. ​Tailgate was not secured and tool bag slid out the back of the truck Perform 360 walkaround ensuring everything is closed up and 6-5-19 399 while leaving the jobsite secured. ​428 Wind blew door open and scratched side of door. 6-19-19 428 Use caution when opening doors in windy conditions Vehicle 429 was stopped at stop sign when a semi truck was turning left. Semi undercut corner and came in contact with left front of 6-19-19 429 N/A vehicle with semi trailer tires. Driver attempted to back up but couldn't do so safely fast enough. Boomed down over the cab of vehicle to hand down a power tool Utilize another method for handing down tools or back into alley to 6-24-19 380 and the boom lowered into the cab causing two parallel dents to the prevent booming over the cab. cab above the driver side door.

Investigations Release Description Contact Date Final Voith Lead Work Tyler O'Brion Draft Voith Turbine Lift Craig, Aaron, Stuart July Voith Top-Hat Incident Craig Bressan Final Royal City Flash Event Craig Bressan Final North Sky Communications Crescent Bare Power Strike RJ Fronsman TBD Blast Operation Lead Incident Tyler O’Brion • For more information contact the Safety Coordinator assigned to the investigation

Voith Lead Incident Investigation Two Grant PUD employees approached two Voith contractors using a grinding wheel to remove lead containing paint on the link arms. The GCPUD employees stopped the work in response to their concerns of improper PPE and containment. PUD Safety was notified; the area was barricaded with red tape. Voith employees cleaned the 4 th floor lunch room and access ways to work locations. Hancock abatement cleanup crews were contacted to conduct additional clean up the following day at the demarcated work locations and took area air (bulk) and surface wipe samples. PUD hazmat was notified and set up boot wash stations at two locations inside the plant. Employee notifications were sent to all PRD employees and posted on the safety board as a reminder of the precautions and hygiene practices to be observed when dealing with Lead. Root Cause 1. Deficiency in hazard communication According to the initial report and the interviews the contractor was aware the paint contained lead and indicated that they have been doing this type of work for three plus years. PUD contract language states that the PUD representative is responsible to provide hazard assessments to the contractor for the work being performed. As it relates to lead paint, the PUD project manager had communicated verbally to contractor management that “all paint in the powerhouse should be assumed lead containing”, yet nothing had been documented. All of the contract employees interviewed reported that they had previously asked representatives of Voith Management if the paint contained lead, yet the response received “assume it does”, had been loosely applied in abatement practice. 2. Deficiency in PPE and Containment 3. Deficiency in training and documentation Voith personnel were not trained to abate lead paint at this work location. There are inconsistent approaches with Voith procedures and how the abatement of lead paint is occurring on a day-by-day basis.

Voith Lead Incident Investigation Corrective Actions 1. Develop an incident response process for these types of events in the future. Drafted 2. Ensure all PUD contract management personnel receive lead worker/ supervisor training annually. Inprogress 3. Provide enhanced Lead Awareness training to all PUD affected workers. Purchased/ awaiting rollout 4. Retrain Voith Contractors on lead awareness. Completed

North Sky Fiber Power Strike Investigation On Monday May 20 approximately 1:20pm Fiber installation crews North Sky hit an unallocated primary phase while digging a trench for new fiber optic cables in the Trinidad Crescent Bar Area. Grant PUD is responsible to locate all underground utilities for NSC and had missed a primary phase that was struck during the plowing operation. According to North Sky employees there was only one power and phone locate running back to the pump house for 10045 Fine Wine Rd. North sky crews took all precautionary actions as they hand dug near exposed power and phone lines that were located. NSC crews exposed the power and phone located and about 3.ft+ off locate was the primary they hit while trying to plow in the new fiber. Root Cause 1. Grant PUD locater only mark one power feed as this is a busy time for them. The job locates where missed because of the work load. 2. Proper procedures missed while performing duties to locate underground utilities. Tuff book or field book maps of utilities buried were not use in the process of locating the power. Corrective Actions 1. Grant PUD will dedicate locators to only perform locate jobs at this time. Other employees will be assigned to cover the TR’s and other field work that usually get assigned to locators. 2. Contractors will be supplied with information on where underground utilities are buried and before starting work in area to dig. All parties involved will have a meeting to discuss where utilities are buried and located on each work site. 3. Before digging always make sure locates are accurate and completed. If any questions about locates stop and reevaluate the situation.

Close Calls Date Location Description Contractor employees observed not utilizing fall protection correctly. A single lanyard was being disconnected to 6-4-19 PRD be relocated. Employees were advised to utilize dual lanyards for 100% tie-off. ​Improper use of the lifting and hanging tags section of the Hydro Switching and Clearance Tagout 6-4-19 PRD System. Contractors were working in an area that had not yet been fully restored to a safe working condition. Using large shop stationary belt sander, was done with work and when they flipped the power switch to the off 6-5-19 ESC position it shocked them. Employee unplugged unit and noticed switch was loose in housing, put out of service sign on unit. ​Genie tele -handler tire rubbed electric panel box when employee was leaving work area. Employee did not 6-11-19 PRD notice Genie was in four-way steer and when turning the outside of tire hit electrical box cover. ​Employee grabbed a grinder out of the welding truck toolbox and noticed there was no guard on it. Employee 6-11-19 PRD could not find a guard anywhere in the tool box. The grinder was not used and it was turned into the Tool Man to get a new replacement guard put on it. During maintenance on Bridge Crane #1 a clearance was hung to isolate power from the motor being worked 6-11-19 PRD on. During the process of verifying the electrically safe working condition in accordance with the ESP policy, it was identified that the over temp devices were still live.

Close Calls Date Location Description In the process of switching, we were ordered by dispatch to open WT-47 gang operated air switch, breaking loop between B-7 and WT-6 breakers. When the switch opened it did not function as intended resulting in an 6-12-19 Quincy arc blast originating on center phase. All safety protocols were followed for this type of task, as well as a visual inspection of the switch prior to operating was conducted. Incident was reported at the ESC safety meeting on the day of incident. Employee sat in chair and the back of the chair broke. Employee was not injured. Facilities was contacted 6-17-19 EHQ regarding the broken chair and need for replacement.​ ​Driving from HOB to Priest Rapids in wind storm and the front air dam on Truck 355 blew off of the front end of 6-18-19 Highway 243 truck. No other damage was noted. ​While driving toward Ephrata on Airport Street S, an on -coming vehicle in the other lane kicked up a small rock 6-19-19 Airport St. Ephrata that struck and cracked the windshield of car No. 467. There was not nothing that could have been done to make this incident avoidable. The foot latch on the east side of the PR right bank gate was broken. While driving through the gate the wind 6-20-19 PRD caught the gate and began to swing it closed toward vehicle. I put the car in park, got out and caught the gate before it contacted the District vehicle. ​I was carrying a plastic tote when the handle broke off and the contents fell out and almost hit my feet. We 6-26-19 EHQ moved the contents to a canvas tote bag so it wouldn't happen again.