| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-23 | Dothan | Al | Gateway Tire Southeast, LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was using a forklift to stack tires for loading. The employee set a tire in place and got off the forklift; the tire then fell on him, breaking his leg. | |||||
| 2021-06-24 | Dothan | Al | Alabama Power Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was relocating a knuckle boom truck. The employee placed his hand on the outrigger to brace himself to kick the outrigger pad into position when his left thumb was pinched between the first and second section of the outrigger, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-06-09 | Dothan | Al | WAYNE FARMS, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a pallet jack when his left index finger hit a pole. The finger was crushed. | |||||
| 2021-05-19 | Dothan | Al | WAYNE FARMS, LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| A team member was stepping down from a stand and missed the last step. Her ankle rolled and fractured. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2021-05-18 | Dothan | Al | Thorne Electric Co Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
| An employee had just finished wiring a junction box for a cooler in a food storage unit. The box was powered on and the employee suffered a 120-volt shock. | |||||
| 2021-04-20 | Dothan | Al | Eastern Sheet Metal, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at a machine. His left index finger was lacerated by a part leaving the machine and entering a straightening die. | |||||
| 2020-08-24 | Dothan | Al | Sabel Steel Service, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was walking a piece of angle steel down to be loaded onto a truck for delivery. While removing the chain from around the piece of steel, the chain slipped and caught the employee's fingertip against the angle steel, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-05-16 | Dothan | Alabama | Flagstone Foods, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was adjusting the belt on a capper machine. The drive belt caught and lacerated the employee's right ring finger. | |||||
| 2020-03-17 | Dothan | Alabama | Howell Plywood Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning wood chips off a machine when the plates of the machine amputated her left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-09-18 | Dothan | Alabama | Mike Schmitz Automotive Group, Inc. | Leg(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
| An employee was struck in the leg by pieces of a tire that ruptured while being filled with air. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-04 | Dothan | Alabama | Dunbarton Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee had been at work for approximately 2 hours. He was operating a weld plate press machine when he experienced heat stress symptoms and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-06-28 | Dothan | Alabama | Flowers Hospital | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was descending an 8-foot A-frame ladder and fell approximately two feet. The employee suffered a broken hip. | |||||
| 2019-06-26 | Dothan | Alabama | The Vincit Group, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was delivering chemicals and removing transfer tubing at a bulk chemical storage tank when residual peracetic acid reacted with an unknown substance, causing off-gassing. The employee was hospitalized with a respiratory injury. | |||||
| 2019-01-10 | Dothan | Alabama | Twitchell Technical Products, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to unjam a pelletizer pull roller when the machine's fly knife blade drum amputated his right ring finger. The machine was unguarded and running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-07-31 | Dothan | Alabama | Wayne Farms LLC | Hand(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was cleaning a 40-pound grate when it fell onto his right hand and fractured it. | |||||
| 2018-07-26 | Dothan | Alabama | Baxley Blowpipe Company, Inc. | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was walking around the job site supervising the work activities of the other employees. A telescopic boom lift was lifting a piece of metal to an elevated location when the piece of metal fell from the boom lift and struck the injured employee in the head and upper torso areas. The employee suffered a head laceration and fractured collarbone, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-07-18 | Dothan | Alabama | Twitchell Technical Products, LLC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was performing a quality control check on a loom and became lightheaded and lethargic. The ambient temperature was high and the employee was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2018-05-03 | Dothan | Alabama | KFH Industries, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was rolling up a 2.5 inch hose when their glove was caught by the hose resulting in a broken arm. | |||||
| 2018-05-01 | Dothan | Alabama | AllSouth Pre-Engineered Components | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's cleaning rag was caught by a piece of equipment's in-going roller, resulting in a right ring finger amputation. | |||||
| 2018-03-22 | Dothan | Alabama | Laurel Oaks Behavioral Health Center, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional |
| An employee was attempting to break up a fight between patients when she was pushed to the ground, fracturing her right femur. | |||||
| 2017-07-07 | Dothan | Alabama | Advantage Resourcing, Inc | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was descending an A-frame step ladder. While on the third rung, he missed the second rung and fell to the concrete ground, breaking his left arm. | |||||
| 2017-06-10 | Dothan | Alabama | Cummings Resources, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was building molds in the mold shop, using a handheld circular saw to cut plywood, when his hand contacted the blade, amputating his left index fingertip to the cuticle. | |||||
| 2017-06-08 | Dothan | Alabama | Swedish Match North America LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing a jam on a cigar making machine when his left hand entered the in-going nip point of the conveyor, amputating his left index fingertip from the nail to the first digit. | |||||
| 2017-05-23 | Dothan | Alabama | HealthSouth Corporation | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was preparing coffee beverages and food items for patients in the work area when she slipped on water and fell onto the floor, fracturing her right leg and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-05-11 | Dothan | Alabama | Michelin North America, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to dislodge an obstruction in the powdered lubricant applicator unit of tire bead fabrication equipment when his right ring fingertip was amputated by a chain and sprocket. | |||||
| 2017-01-24 | Dothan | Alabama | Dunbarton Corporation | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was trying to hang a part on the paint line while standing on a platform approximately 2 feet high. The employee got dizzy and fell on the concrete floor fracturing his left femur. | |||||
| 2016-08-31 | Dothan | Alabama | Michelin Employee Activity Association, Inc. - US4 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was using a wrench to install a belt on the vent fan unit and amputated the ring finger in the belt and pulley. | |||||
| 2016-06-09 | Dothan | Alabama | Advantage Resourcing | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was moving a beam with an overhead crane when the beam fell on his right leg, breaking it. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-05-12 | Dothan | Alabama | Flowers Hospital | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| The employee was walking back from a patient's room by the nursing station, tripped and struck her left arm on the nursing desk fracturing it. | |||||
| 2016-04-14 | Dothan | Alabama | QSI Steel Fabricators | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working with a piece of metal on a shear machine while wearing gloves when his hand became caught on the machine guard. The guard pulled the glove and his left middle finger into the machine, amputating the fingertip almost to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-02-16 | Dothan | Alabama | South Eastern Sheet Metal | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was rolling sheet metal into a HYD double pinch plate roller machine when his hand got caught between the rollers resulting in the amputation of his left index finger. | |||||
| 2016-02-09 | Dothan | Alabama | Laurel Oaks Behavioral Health Center, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional |
| While trying to stop three patients from escaping an area of the facility, an employee was kicked in the leg by one of the patients. The employee suffered a broken tibia. | |||||
| 2016-01-22 | Dothan | Alabama | Wayne Farms, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was unloading cages of poultry when the chain that carries the cages came off of the track. When the employee attempted to put the chain back on, the chain caught and partially amputated his left middle and ring fingers. The machine was still running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-01-12 | Dothan | Alabama | Troy Cablevision, Inc. | Head | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was being treated for a work-related cut when he passed out and struck his head on the ground. | |||||
| 2015-10-21 | Dothan | Alabama | Flint Equipment Co. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| The employee is a truck driver. The employee drove to another employer's location to deliver a tractor. While unloading the equipment off the trailer, the employee fell from the trailer and fractured a hip. | |||||
| 2015-09-30 | Dothan | Alabama | DUNBARTON CORPORATION, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee felt sick and passed out after spray painting residential doors by hand at a paint booth. The employee possibly overheated. | |||||
| 2015-08-20 | Dothan | Alabama | KFH Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On August 20, 2015, an employee was rethreading the extruded tube product into the belted puller. The rollers caught his glove and pulled his left thumb into the nip point, crushing it. He was hospitalized for a left thumb contusion. | |||||
| 2015-06-19 | Dothan | Alabama | Dollar Bills Sales and Service, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee appeared to be overheated after installing tires and wheels during the day. The employer asked him to rest. After about 30 minutes, he did not appear to be getting better, so the employer asked him to go home. He was eventually hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-04-26 | Dothan | Alabama | Twitchell Technical Products, LLC. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was standing next to a pallet containing a box of yarn. The employee fell after twisting while unloading the box and broke his hip, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-04-11 | Dothan | Alabama | Twitchell, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was removing yarn from a machine roller when his finger got caught and partially amputated by yarn. The machine was turned off with the power button on the control station at the time. | |||||