Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2017-08-25 | Hawkinsville | Georgia | Southern Heating & Air LLC | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was underneath a residential home installing an HVAC plenum when his right hand made contact with an exposed energized electrical wire. He received an electrical shock and sustained burn injuries to his right hand and chest. | |||||
2015-06-03 | Hawkinsville | Georgia | Hardy's Peanuts, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was operating a Yale forklift when he stuck his left hand outside the cab of the forklift. His left hand got caught between the front left vertical member of the forklift's overhead guard system and the metal horizontal rail of an adjacent grading table. He sustained injuries to his left hand, requiring a left thumb amputation at the hospital. |