This page documents the real-world hazard data that drove more than 20 years of product development — the settlement, the fines, the damage rates, and the code language that shaped Stub-EASE II™.
Conduit stub-ups are not treated as a serious jobsite hazard by most crews — until someone gets hurt. The numbers below are not projections. They are what actually happened on real concrete construction projects, and what NEC 300.15(F) and OSHA require as a result.
"I was General Superintendent on the University Center of Chicago project for Turner Construction, between 2002 and 2004. A worker tripped on an unprotected conduit stub-up on the slab. It should never have happened, and I was responsible for that job site when it did."
"The litigation that followed settled for over $1.3 million. That incident is the genesis of Stub-EASE™. I did not walk away from it and move on to the next job. I spent the next twenty years figuring out how to make sure it could never happen again."
— Jeff Krause, Founder & Director of Manufacturing and Product Development, CSUE TechnologiesUnprotected conduit stub-ups on working walking surfaces are a recognized impalement hazard under OSHA's General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act of 1970. When a worker is exposed to stub-ups between nine and twelve inches above the finished concrete deck, the citation follows — regardless of how long the condition existed.
In a documented high-rise construction inspection in Chicago, an electrical contractor was cited for a Serious violation covering 456 instances of impalement exposure across 50 workers. The initial penalty was $4,000; it settled at $2,400 — but the abatement requirement and case record remain public and permanent.
Stub-EASE II™ eliminates the cited condition before any worker sets foot on the slab. The Stub-EASE II™ cap is in place before the pour — so there is nothing left standing for OSHA to cite, and nothing left for a worker to be impaled on.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Inspection Record No. 1087741.015, Calumet City Office, August 2015. Public record. Company name withheld.
Settlements and verdicts from documented conduit stub-up injury cases on commercial construction projects. These are public court records and law firm published outcomes — not estimates.
Core drill or chip out the damaged conduit from cured concrete
Re-bend or fully replace the damaged conduit run
3–6 hours of electrician labor, per stub-up, to make the repair
Schedule disruption that ripples into every trade behind the repair crew
NEC 300.15(F) requires that a fitting or connector be used wherever a conductor or cable exits a raceway. The Bend-EASE™ elbow satisfies this requirement as a transition fitting between metallic conduit systems embedded in concrete and PVC conduit systems, designed and tested to meet UL specifications.
The Same Fitting. Any Raceway.
Bend-EASE™ is code-compliant with both metallic (EMT/RMC) and PVC below-slab raceways under NEC 300.15(F) (2023 NEC) / NEC 300.17(F) (2026 NEC). No additional grounding measures are required beyond standard installation practice for the raceway type used. This was confirmed through independent NEC analysis — the elbow adds zero grounding burden in either configuration. One product spec covers the full range of below-slab raceway conditions on any project.
Every material in the Stub-EASE II™ system was selected for a specific job-site condition — visibility, flexibility under a trowel, or structural support during the pour.
Spec sheets, installation guides, and compliance documentation for Stub-EASE II™ — ready for your project file, design team, or safety submittal. No sign-up required.
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