| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-19 | Cartersville | Ga | Doehler North America Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was operating the bottling production line when the line stopped. The employee tried to clear a label jammed on the machinery when the machinery contacted the employee's right index fingertip, resulting in amputation. The machinery was not locked out/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2021-06-25 | Cartersville | Ga | ASTA INDUSTRIES, INC. | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was manually adjusting a press machine in a maintenance shop when it fell over onto the employee. The employee suffered fractures to the right fibula and tibial shaft, a fractured thumb, and multiple pelvic fractures. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-04-28 | Cartersville | Ga | NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE | Head | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was removing weights from the base of a sensor wind tower. The tower tilted and struck the employee, causing a head injury that required staples. | |||||
| 2021-03-31 | Cartersville | Ga | XPO Logistics Supply Chain, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On March 31, 2021, an employee was emptying a trash hopper when his finger was crushed in the hopper resulting in medical amputation of the finger above the knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-05-07 | Cartersville | Georgia | Elster Meter Services | Upper arm(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee tripped and fell forward. Her left shoulder struck a stacked pallet of gas meters, and her left humerus was broken. | |||||
| 2020-04-23 | Cartersville | Georgia | Gerdau | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was helping a crane operator retrieve a roll from a storage rack. The employee was working on the west side of the rack and the crane operator was working on the east side of the rack. The employee's hand was resting on the end of the roll. When the operator lifted the top roll, the other roll moved, pinching the employee's left hand and resulting in amputations to the left pinky and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2020-04-02 | Cartersville | Georgia | R & L Carriers Shared Services LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was using a manual pallet jack to move a freight down a steep driveway when the employee tripped over the pallet jack tires and fell on their left side to the concrete driveway. The employee suffered a non-displaced left hip fracture. | |||||
| 2020-01-10 | Cartersville | Georgia | Shaw Industries Inc. Plant 12 | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was applying plastic stretch film to a roll of carpet using a trolley-mounted stretch film head. The film tore and retracted back into the head of the film machine, wrapping around some small middle tension rollers. The employee was removing the film from the rollers with scissors when the machine activated and fed more film. His gloved left hand was caught between the small rollers and the lid of the stretch wrap machine, causing friction burns to the back of the hand, the little fi | |||||
| 2019-08-22 | Cartersville | Georgia | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee had been trying to clear a clogged drain with drain cleaner. As the employee was using compressed air to clear the drain, the drain cleaner sprayed out and caused second-degree burns to his cheek, nose and forehead. | |||||
| 2019-08-06 | Cartersville | Georgia | SELF RECYCLING | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. |
| An employee was unloading a dump trailer when the dump trailer tipped over and caused the truck to tip over on the passenger side. The employee sustained a head contusion, kidney laceration, four broken ribs, and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2019-05-23 | Cartersville | Georgia | C. W. Matthews Contracting | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was bent over using a multi-purpose saw to cut a knee-high plank lagging board that was jammed. During the cut, the saw blade pinched, causing the blade to kick back and lacerate the employee's right shoulder. | |||||
| 2019-04-22 | Cartersville | Georgia | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at a stretch wrapper, applying stretch wrap to a 6-foot-wide tufted roll of carpet. His vest and jacket got caught and were pulled between the roll of carpet and the cradle. His right arm was also pulled between the carpet roll and the cradle. He suffered friction burns to his lower back, right arm in the bicep area/armpit, and right hand. | |||||
| 2019-03-30 | Cartersville | Georgia | Vulcan Industrial Contractors Company, Inc. | Hip(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| A pickup truck backed into an employee, knocking him to the ground and breaking his right hip. | |||||
| 2018-09-19 | Cartersville | Georgia | Trinity North American Freight Car, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was driving a utility vehicle beside a track, towing a small trailer. A railcar mover struck the rear of the trailer, which jackknifed and struck the utility vehicle. The employee suffered fractures to the pelvic region and two ribs. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Cartersville | Georgia | Floor Pro Packaging Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was filling boxes under the chute of a ribbon blender when his hand entered the chute and was pinched in the machinery, resulting in a right hand amputation. The ribbon blender was in operation at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-08-07 | Cartersville | Georgia | Lowe's Home Centers, LLC (NC) | Hip(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was struck by a powered forklift while pushing a shopping cart on the work floor, suffering a broken hip. | |||||
| 2018-07-14 | Cartersville | Georgia | SynCot Plastics, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Two employees were clearing a jam on an extruder machine when the hot plastic ejected from the mold and burned one of them. | |||||
| 2018-06-06 | Cartersville | Georgia | Fluor Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| Employees were raising a structural steel beam (L 27' x W 24" x 104") when it fell striking the injured employee. They were lifting the beam using a beam clamp and a crane to orient it to slide in place to be bolted up. The injured employee's lower left leg was amputated. The employee also sustained serious injuries to the right leg, a bruised hand and a possible fractured cheekbone. | |||||
| 2018-03-16 | Cartersville | Georgia | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on a catwalk performing a clutch check. While stepping off the catwalk, the employee fell approximately 8 inches to the concrete floor, striking the right elbow and right hip. | |||||
| 2018-01-22 | Cartersville | Georgia | GEORGIA POWER | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was acting as a spotter as another employee was operating a portable crane to remove a bag house filter. His hand was holding the top part of the hoist's load cable when it reeled in his left index finger, pinching it and resulting in a surgical amputation. | |||||
| 2017-10-14 | Cartersville | Georgia | AutoZone | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing a rolling ladder when he slipped and fell to the floor, injuring his hip. | |||||
| 2017-09-26 | Cartersville | Georgia | SHAW INDUSTRIES | Fingertip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was removing carpet tiles from a conveyor belt when he tripped over carpet tiles on the floor and his hand made contact with the belt, partially amputating one of his fingertips. | |||||
| 2017-02-25 | Cartersville | Georgia | U.S. Pipeline, Inc. | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was standing next to a bore pipe observing the work. An excavator was being used to pull an auger bit out of the bore pipe. A chain was attached to the excavator to pull the auger sections. While the excavator was pulling the auger, the chain failed and whiplashed into the employee's face. The employee lost the left eye and suffered a right orbital socket fracture. | |||||
| 2016-09-15 | Cartersville | Georgia | Hayes James & Associates, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
| An employee and coworkers were using machetes to cut overgrown brush and grass to create a clear path to use surveying equipment. A coworker's machete struck the left hand of the employee, amputating the employee's left index finger. | |||||
| 2016-05-23 | Cartersville | Georgia | Samuel Strapping System | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was wrapping a finished pallet on a stretch wrap machine. While attempting to cut the excess stretch film from the pallet, the employee's left index fingertip was amputated between the pallet and the guarding around the turntable. The machine was still running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-05-10 | Cartersville | Georgia | Southeastern Site Development, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was attempting to remove the teeth from the bucket of an excavator when a piece of metal flew off, striking the employee in the neck. The employee suffered internal bleeding and required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-01-18 | Cartersville | Georgia | TRINITY RAIL | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was moving a rail car out of the paint booth. The bolts sheered off the winch base and it came loose striking the employee in the lower extremities resulting in a fractured right leg and left foot. | |||||
| 2015-10-21 | Cartersville | Georgia | Shaw Industries Group | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| The injured employee was cleaning at the end of the shift. She proceeded to put paper in a recycling bin and turned around to return to the Mega-cutter. As she passed by the weight scale she stepped diagonally across the ramp and caught the back portion of her foot on the ramp causing her to trip. The employee fell forward onto the floor landing on her right hip and fracturing it. | |||||
| 2015-09-10 | Cartersville | Georgia | SHAW INDUSTRIES | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell off the steps while he was working with a shear press machine on the platform. He fractured his right hip. | |||||
| 2015-08-13 | Cartersville | Georgia | Kirkpatrick & Sons | Multiple trunk locations | Pedestrian vehicular incident |
| An employee was run over and suffered a fractured pelvis, collapsed lung, and collapsed bladder. | |||||
| 2015-01-14 | Cartersville | Georgia | National Steel City | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was engaging in pipe fitting using a portable grinder and received an amputation to his finger padding. | |||||