Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-18 | Ball Ground | Ga | Awnex, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was welding aluminum brackets. The wires on the welding machine melted and a wire struck the employee's hand, shocking her. | |||||
2020-06-22 | Ball Ground | Georgia | CMI | Head and trunk | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was trying to seal a punctured bag of material that was at the bottom of a stack. The top bag of material (2,000 lb.) fell on top of the employee, who suffered three broken ribs and a possible fractured eye socket. | |||||
2020-04-13 | Ball Ground | Georgia | UNIVERSAL ALLOY CORPORATION | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was operating an aluminum stretcher machine. The employee was struck by a piece of steel tooling that failed while in the machine. The employee sustained a laceration and a fractured lower leg. | |||||
2020-02-06 | Ball Ground | Georgia | UNIVERSAL ALLOY CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Alloy from a crane hook piece flipped onto an employee's left hand and pinched off the tip of the ring finger. | |||||
2019-06-01 | Ball Ground | Georgia | UNIVERSAL ALLOY CORPORATION | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was working at an aluminum press. As he was inserting the clean-out ring, the press closed on his left hand, amputating four fingers. | |||||
2016-10-17 | Ball Ground | Georgia | CHART INDUSTRIES, INC | Hip(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
At approximately 8:04 a.m., on October 17, 2016, an employee was counting stacked sheet metal when she was struck by a pallet being carried by an oncoming forklift. She fell and struck her right side on the concrete working surface, fracturing her hip. |