Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-27 | Ashburn | Ga | Golden Peanut Company, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was operating a tractor when it flipped and ejected him. Its back tire then rolled over him, and he suffered a collapsed lung, broken ribs on the right side, and lacerations to the left hand and right arm. | |||||
2017-06-06 | Ashburn | Georgia | Southland Ford, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
While placing a tarp over a damaged skylight, an employee fell approximately 19 feet through the skylight to the concrete floor, suffering broken ribs, a bruised lung, a broken collarbone, and a skull fracture. | |||||
2016-03-01 | Ashburn | Georgia | Turner County Stockyards, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was walking across the roof of a barn carrying a piece of guttering when he stepped backwards onto a skylight. He fell through the skylight into the barn from a height of about 15 feet and landed on metal cattle pens and the concrete floor. The employee suffered broken ribs, a liver laceration, a fractured eye-socket bone, and an arm laceration. | |||||
2015-04-08 | Ashburn | Georgia | Layne Christiansen | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee suffered severe cramping and heat exhaustion while performing work in 80-degree weather. He was hospitalized overnight. |