Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-07-16 | Lake Park | Georgia | Champion Irrigation, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was helping to install steel piping for a water well. A well digging machine was holding the pipe vertically and moving it into position when the pipe came out of the holder and fell on the employee's left foot. Several toes were crushed and had to be amputated. | |||||
2019-03-14 | Lake Park | Georgia | Trejo Labor Service, L.L.C. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was overseeing a carrot bagging machine. A bag got stuck in the machine; while the employee was trying to remove it, the machine's knives cut off the tip of his right index finger. | |||||
2018-08-24 | Lake Park | Georgia | Corbett Electrical Construction, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was walking beside a stand-behind trencher as it dug a trench. The cutting chain pulled in one of his shoelaces and severely lacerated his lower left leg. The chain was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-01-23 | Lake Park | Georgia | The Home Depot, Inc RDC 5085 | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was transferring boxes of product from one pallet to another when she lost her balance and fell to the ground, breaking her right ankle. | |||||
2018-01-03 | Lake Park | Georgia | WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee slipped on ice while exiting a truck and impacted the ground, breaking a leg and requiring surgery. | |||||
2017-05-31 | Lake Park | Georgia | Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee slipped/tripped while carrying a tray of food and a pitcher, falling to the floor and fracturing the right hip. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-05-19 | Lake Park | Florida | Maschmeyer Concrete Company of Florida, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was bending rebar steel with his hands and a rebar bending machine when his right pinky fingertip was pinched and amputated between the rebar. | |||||
2016-10-19 | Lake Park | Georgia | Castanon Harvesting, LLC | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was walking though the pallets in the packing area and was struck by an electric powered forklift. The employee sustained a foot injury requiring stitches and hospitalization. | |||||
2015-08-07 | Lake Park | Georgia | SNAP RITE MANUFACTURING, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's fingers were crushed in a brake press while operating the large drain pan brake press in the drain pan area resulting in a left hand finger amputation. | |||||
2015-07-24 | Lake Park | Georgia | Intelligrated, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee performing service and maintenance on a conveyor system injured his calf muscle on his left leg when it got caught between the conveyor sorter slat and a cross brace. The conveyor was not locked out at the time. The employee's leg required surgery. |