| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-26 | Jay | Ok | COBB-VANTRESS INC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through unintentional needlestick or sharp injury |
| An employee was vaccinating poultry at a farm. A bird suddenly jumped, causing the employee to be injected with a poultry vaccine. | |||||
| 2020-09-08 | Ellijay | Ga | PDQ Manufacturing Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
| An employee was putting bottles in boxes on a production line. A carton became lodged in the taping portion of the carton erector. He was trying to unjam the carton when it ripped, causing his right hand to pass over the cutting mechanism and the protective cover on the cutting blade to pull back. The blade cut off the tip of his middle finger. | |||||
| 2019-08-07 | Jayton | Texas | ROBINSON DRILLING OF TEXAS, LTD | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was pressure washing a rig when the employee began to see spots and experienced dizziness due to dehydration. | |||||
| 2019-05-11 | Jay | Florida | FIS Field Services, LLC. | Multiple lower extremities locations | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was setting up a board over a 3-foot deep excavation so that he could access the control valve to stop a leak. The employee fell into the excavation that was filled with hot water and suffered burns to the feet, leg and knee. | |||||
| 2019-03-13 | Ellijay | Georgia | ADUSA Transportation, LLC | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee slipped while climbing into a truck cab, falling to the ground and breaking his right arm in three places. | |||||
| 2019-03-13 | Ellijay | Georgia | ADUSA Transportaion | Arm(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| A truck driver slipped and fell while getting onto a truck, breaking his arm in three places. | |||||
| 2018-09-04 | Jay | Maine | Verso Corporation Androscoggin Mill | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was changing a transmission on a loader/crane. While he was removing a bolt, the flywheel caught and amputated the tip of his left middle finger. | |||||
| 2017-07-29 | Jay | Maine | Verso Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While clearing a piece of stuck paper, an employee sustained finger lacerations and amputation of the left middle and ring fingertips after their hand was pulled into the rope/sheave nips in the after-dryer section of the paper machine. | |||||
| 2017-04-30 | Jay | Oklahoma | Public Service Company of Oklahoma (AEP) | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was working from a pole that had just been set in wet and muddy ground. The employee was making the second power line connection when the pole began to lean. The pole slowly leaned to approximately 10 feet from the ground then fell over with the employee still attached to the pole. The employee suffered broken ribs. | |||||
| 2017-04-07 | Ellijay | Georgia | Ernie Stover | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was painting the ceiling while on a scaffold system that was about 10 feet from ground level when the employee fell from the scaffold and suffered a head injury. | |||||
| 2017-02-03 | Ellijay | Georgia | HENKELS & MCCOY, INC. | Arm(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a hoist attached to a bracket to pull a guy wire right. The bracket broke causing the guy wire to strike and break the employee's arm. | |||||
| 2016-01-09 | Ellijay | Georgia | AMICALOLA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee fractured his ribs, sternum, back, and shoulder when a tree fell on him while he was clearing it off a power line. | |||||
| 2015-10-21 | Jay | Oklahoma | Free Ranger Poultry, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting straps from boxes at the loading dock with a knife. The employee's hand slipped and he cut himself in the lower, right abdomen. The employee was hospitalized for treatment of small perforations in the small intestine. | |||||
| 2015-09-10 | Jay | Florida | Birdsong Peanut Corporation | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| While climbing a fixed steel ladder from a 16-feet-deep dump pit, an employee fell 6 feet from the ladder to the steel floor of the dump pit, breaking two vertebrae and both ankles and requiring hospitalization. | |||||