| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-01 | Fitzgerald | Ga | Polar Beverages | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on a portable ladder and working on a light fixture when he received an electric shock from a secondary power source. The employee fell to the ground and injured their back. | |||||
| 2021-07-15 | Fitzgerald | Ga | American Blanching Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee attempted to remove a waste pan from a rack in the blanching area when the pan tipped and caught her finger between the pan and the rack. The employee's left middle fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-01-13 | Fitzgerald | Ga | American Blanching Company | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-08 | Fitzgerald | Ga | Agri-Products, Inc. | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was rolling logs. The employee stepped onto a shaver box to straighten a log, and his right foot was caught between the shaver box and the drive chain. The foot and the ankle were broken. | |||||
| 2020-09-14 | Fitzgerald | Ga | VLS RECOVERY LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell down stairs and suffered a head injury. | |||||
| 2020-08-31 | Fitzgerald | Ga | Watco Mechanical Services, LLC | Multiple leg locations | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| A forklift rolled backward over an employee's leg, causing fractures to the femur and the lower leg. | |||||
| 2020-01-29 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Covered Wagon Trailers, LLC | Ankle(s) and knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee had stepped out of a scissor lift that was approximately 8 feet high onto a steel beam to retrieve a fan. The employee fell off of the beam and landed on the concrete floor, breaking his right knee and left ankle. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Agri-Products Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was installing a belt over a pulley on a fan when his left middle finger was caught between the belt and the pulley. He pulled his hand out and tissue was removed from the first joint of his finger. | |||||
| 2019-06-21 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Kampco Services of Georgia, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A temporary employee was operating a press brake machine to form a piece of aluminum. As the employee engaged the press brake, the ram of the press brake crushed the employee's fingers on both hands. The employee sustained partial amputations to four of his fingers. | |||||
| 2019-06-12 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Covered Wagon Trailers, LLC | Forearm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a portable grinder. Its wheel lacerated the employee's forearm, and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-04-19 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | American Blanching Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was retrieving a test sample from an ingredient feeder when her right thumb made contact with the auger screw of the feeder. Her right thumb was caught between the screw and the auger housing, resulting in a digit amputation of the right thumb. | |||||
| 2018-09-24 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Protein Plus, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the air lock used for moving peanut flour in the conveying system. The paddles unexpectedly activated and partially amputated their right index and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2018-07-14 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Agri-Products, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was outside blowing off a concrete pad when he experienced nausea due to dehydration (heat stress), requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-07-17 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Elixir Door and Metals Co., Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a press brake to bend a piece of steel. After bending the piece of steel, he re-actuated the press brake with the foot pedal while grabbing the part out of the die. The part broke up toward the front/top of the press (ram) and a previously bent flange caught and amputated his left index and ring fingertips above the knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-07-11 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | LIPPERT COMPONENTS, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a brake press to bend parts when his right hand was caught by the press blade, amputating his right thumb tip. | |||||
| 2017-05-11 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Agri-Products, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee noticed that a shaver box was making a strange noise and called a coworker for assistance. After the coworker identified that the noise was being caused by a piece of wood that was hung up in the shaver box, he pressed the stop button to initiate the shutdown process. While the employee was attempting to remove the piece of wood, his foot was on the chain of the shaver box. The chain was still coasting to a stop and pulled the employee's right foot into the drive sprocket. He suffere | |||||
| 2017-02-23 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Elixir Door and Metals Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was running a punch press and amputated their right index finger. | |||||
| 2016-08-12 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Enviro-Log, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was holding a piece of plywood in his right hand by the steel structure of a conveyor. A forklift was returning a dumpster to that area and the forklift struck the plywood pressing the employee's finger between the plywood and the steel structure of a conveyor. The tip of the employee's right ring finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-06-15 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | SHAW INDUSTRIES GROUP, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing excess yarn from a yarn package (a roll of yarn) inside a cabling machine. He held the excess yarn in his right hand, and as he put it back into the machine, the yarn became caught on the pre-seed roller. The roller then pulled the yarn around and partially amputated his fifth digit (pinky finger). | |||||
| 2016-05-21 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Polar Beverage | Nonclassifiable | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee raised the hoist arm on a conveyor to pull a pallet that had stopped. The hoist arm then fell down and struck the employee, causing contusions and abrasions. | |||||
| 2015-06-02 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Agri-Products Incorporated | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee sustained middle finger debriding on the left hand when he was engaged in changing the belt between the motor and the gearbox on the log deck and the belt became energized. Lockout procedures were not initiated prior to maintenance work being conducted. The employee was taken to the hospital and admitted for surgery to reattach skin. | |||||
| 2015-05-11 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Look Trailers | Foot (feet) | Stepped on object |
| On 05/04/15, an employee stepped on a screw, which punctured the employee's boot and foot. The employee was later hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2015-01-28 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | Polar Beverages Southern Bottling | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was changing a forklift battery that was suspended from a hoist. While the employee was moving the hoist, the battery slipped off the hoist hook and fell on the employee's right foot. Three toes on the employee's right foot were amputated. | |||||