Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-23 | Alpharetta | Ga | Lazer Spot Inc. | Pelvis | Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c. |
A truck driver was closing the doors on his trailer when another truck struck the trailer causing the truck to bounce and shake erratically. The driver suffered a broken pelvis and a laceration across his back. | |||||
2020-07-12 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Outback Steakhouse | Leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was moving a container of boiling water off the stove when the water spilled on her leg. She then slipped in the water and fell. The employee was hospitalized with burns. | |||||
2020-07-09 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Flex-Fab Inc | Face | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was assisting in positioning a small set of stairs. While on a platform 9 feet from the ground, the employee had a seizure and fell onto the AC unit. He sustained facial fractures. | |||||
2020-06-04 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Lazer Spot | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was riding on the back of a truck cab, training a new hire. As the tractor backed up, the fifth wheel of the tractor did not engage the trailer pin and the tractor continued back into the front of the trailer. The employee was crushed between the two and suffered a broken leg and a broken pelvis. | |||||
2020-05-06 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Atlanta Lanehart Electric | Forearm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a utility knife to cut a pipe for a slab conduit when the knife slipped off the pipe and lacerated the employee's right forearm. | |||||
2019-08-19 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Quality Steel & Welding, INC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c. |
An employee was operating a telehandler forklift while wearing his personal fall protection harness. When he went to back up, a lanyard that was hanging down and not attached to the harness caught under the front wheel and jerked him violently in his seat. He was wearing his seat belt at the time. He struck the metal guards on the side seat of the forklift and fractured vertebrae in his back. | |||||
2019-07-26 | Alpharetta | Georgia | J L & E Welding & Erectors | Arm(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee had just climbed down a ladder after completing a welding job. The employee was then struck by a concrete block and sustained cuts, scrapes, and a fracture to an arm. | |||||
2019-04-14 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Publix Super Markets, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
While blocking product in a supermarket aisle, a grocery clerk slipped and fell, suffering a broken left hip. The clerk was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-09 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Impact Alliance, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was watching a second employee assess a noise from a cut-off saw. The first employee grabbed the blade because he thought it looked loose. At the same time, the second employee "bumped" the saw, which caused the blade to grab the first employees right index finger and amputate the tip. The saw was not de-energized at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-05-09 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Ceramic Technics, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of wood when the blade amputated the employee's left index fingertip. The saw was unguarded at the time. | |||||
2017-08-30 | Alpharetta | Georgia | AT&T CORPORATION | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped in the restroom and injured her hip. | |||||
2017-07-12 | Alpharetta | Georgia | CBRE GWS REAL ESTATE SERVICES, INC. | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
On July 12, 2017, at 11:05 a.m., an employee was moving a barricade to reopen access to an area of the building when he lost consciousness and fell. The back of his head struck the floor, damaging his skull and requiring surgery. | |||||
2017-04-26 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Founders Kitchen and Bath, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting a piece of cabinet wood on a table saw when his hand contacted the blade, resulting in amputation of his fingertips. | |||||
2016-09-16 | Alpharetta | Georgia | City Town Group | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was installing fiber cable optic in an apartment complex building. The employee stepped out to the hallway on the second floor and leaned against an unsecured railing, falling approximately 9 feet to the ground below and fracturing the pelvic bone. | |||||
2016-08-05 | Alpharetta | Georgia | KinMetal LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
On August 5, 2016, at 1:15 PM, an employee's finger was caught in the pinch point of a press brake, amputating his left ring fingertip. | |||||
2016-04-14 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Home Depot, Store #0149 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee tried to open a gate while on a forklift truck when his finger was pinched between the gate and a concrete wall. The distal phalange on his right ring finger was amputated. | |||||
2015-12-03 | Alpharetta | Georgia | American Disposal Services | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in roadway |
An employee was dumping garbage into the waste dump when an automobile slammed into the back of the truck, pinning the employee between the car and truck. Both of the employee's legs were amputated. | |||||
2015-05-13 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Bibler Masonry Contractors, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a scaffold rack while unloading scaffolding material from a flatbed truck and sustained a broken wrist and head bump. | |||||
2015-03-14 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Atlanta Lubes One, LLC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Nonclassifiable |
An employee at the facility was hospitalized after being found unresponsive in the subfloor area. | |||||
2015-02-18 | Alpharetta | Georgia | Advanced Disposal | Multiple pelvic region locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was injured and required hospitalization for a crushed pelvis and ruptured urethra when a waste compactor was activated and the anchor bolts holding it down broke, trapping the employee between the compactor and a wall. |