Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-03 | Cairo | Ga | Residential Elevators, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a brake press to bend metal for production. The press caught the employee's right thumb, removing the fingernail and flesh about a quarter inch from the thumb tip. | |||||
2021-02-10 | Cairo | Ga | Nivel Parts & Manufacturing Co, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding metal into a brake press. The machine partially amputated two of the employee's fingers. | |||||
2019-03-30 | Cairo | West Virgini | Jay-Bee Oil & Gas, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
A well tender was putting methanol in a dump-line when the nipple broke off the line. Methanol sprayed into the employee's face and eyes; the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-06-13 | Cairo | Georgia | Southern Storage Solutions, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was installing the flooring of a portable storage building when he stepped on a flexible air hose, lost his balance and fell approximately ten inches to the ground. The employee sustained a broken hip and ankle. | |||||
2017-07-24 | Cairo | Georgia | Big Bend Agri-Services | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
On July 24, 2017, at around 11:00 a.m., an employee was preparing to load peracetic acid and peroxide into a plastic tote. He turned the air off, which keeps the plunger from opening up at the bottom of the fill tube, and guided the fill tube into a plastic tote. When he started lowering the fill tube into the tote, the plunger opened up and some chemical came out and splashed him, causing chemical burns to the left side of his neck and left shoulder. |