| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-03 | Lithia Springs | Ga | Saddle Creek Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
| An employee was loading a trailer with pallets of product at a warehouse dock. After stowing the dock plate, the employee entered the trailer to put some airbags in the trailer to help support the pallet loads. While exiting the trailer, the employee's leg fell into the gap between the trailer floor and the dock floor resulting in a lower leg laceration. | |||||
| 2020-08-22 | Lithia Springs | Ga | Amazon.com Services, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| At about 8:15 a.m. on August 22, 2020, an employee was in a truck yard opening the swing-style doors on the back of a semi trailer. When the employee opened the right-side door, a generator weighing over 200 pounds fell and struck the employee, knocking her to the ground. She suffered a broken right ankle. | |||||
| 2020-07-30 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Gordon Food Service | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was fixing a conveyor belt. The middle roller on the adjacent belt caught his right hand and burned the hand, wrist, and back of the hand. | |||||
| 2020-05-28 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Walmart | Heart | Overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee had been mopping and hand scrubbing spilled paint off the floor. The employee lost consciousness due to a possible heart attack. He fell and struck his head on a pallet jack. | |||||
| 2020-02-21 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | NCI Group, Inc | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was operating an overhead crane to move a coil to a staging rack. After setting the coil down next to another coil, the employee did not move the chain, which was caught between the two coils. When the employee went to move the crane with the lodged chain, the coil became unstable and began to fall. The employee stepped out onto the staging rack to stabilize the coil with his hands. The coil was too heavy and fell onto the rack and the employee's right and left legs. As a result, the | |||||
| 2020-01-18 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | West Rock Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting a varnish pump. He removed and replaced the pump. The pump was turned on and the pump impeller amputated his right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-08-16 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | XPO Logistics Supply Chain, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| At about 9:40 a.m. on August 16, 2019, a temporary employee was loading a spool of shrink-wrap on a shrink-wrap machine using an electric powered hoist. The hoist dropped the load onto the employee's finger while adjusting a roller tab that had to be in the vertical position for the roll to set in place. The employee suffered the amputation of the left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-07-10 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | National Construction Rentals | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| After their work shift, an employee began to feel sick, light headed, had stomach cramping and was ill. The employee was hospitalized for possible dehydration. | |||||
| 2019-07-02 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Bunzl Distribution Southeast, LLC | Pelvis | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was operating a stand-up forklift when it collided with a stack of wooden pallets. The employee suffered a broken pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-04-11 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Allison Smith | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was preparing to install an electrical conduit on a switch gearbox when he fell about 7 1/2 feet to the floor. He suffered nine broken ribs on the left side of his body. | |||||
| 2019-02-28 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Auto Nation Toyota Thornton Road | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was inspecting a brake system on a vehicle. A wheel was turned, and the employee's left index finger was caught between the tire and the brake caliper cover. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-02-18 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Chemstar Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was removing the lid from a liquid tote of hypochlorous acid. Exposed to the vapor, the employee began experiencing shortness of breath and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-09-18 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Medline Industries Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using an air wand to align a conveyor belt when the belt caught and pulled the air wand, sending the employee's hand into the equipment. The employee suffered a laceration to the left-hand little finger, resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip. The conveyor was energized and running at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | MEDLINE INDUSTRIES | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| On 08/20/2018, an employee was moving an unstable load stacked on a forklift truck when the truck began to tip over. The employee jumped off the forklift as it tipped and was struck by the load, which fell off the forks. The employee was hospitalized with back and spinal injuries. | |||||
| 2018-06-13 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Pirate Staffing | Lip(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| A temporary employee slid bottles of cleaning fluid down the line with his hand and some of the liquid splashed onto his face, causing his lips to swell. | |||||
| 2018-06-04 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Shippers Warehouse of Georgia | Lower leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was riding a pallet jack down the right side of an aisle. As he passed another forklift on the left side of the aisle, his lower left leg got caught on the edge of the wooden pallet that was on the forks of the other forklift. The employee sustained a fractured left shin. | |||||
| 2018-05-10 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | SA Recycling, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was opening the door to a car that was on a flat bed truck for recycling when the door fell and struck the employee's left middle finger, amputating it. | |||||
| 2018-02-23 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | AutoNation Toyota Thornton Rd. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee suffered a left thumb laceration/crushing injury while installing a car engine. | |||||
| 2016-09-24 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Amazon Fulfillment Center | Lower leg(s) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a powered industrial truck when he lost control of the vehicle and jumped from it. The truck severed his lower left leg, which had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2016-08-17 | Lithia | Florida | The Mosaic Company | Nonclassifiable | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee had just dropped off a co-worker at the main gate and was returning back to the office when he suffered a seizure and lost control of the company pickup and struck a tree. | |||||
| 2016-06-04 | Lithia Springs | Georgia | Southeast Cooler | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at a folding machine when his fingers were caught in the machine's metal fingers. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-06-24 | Lithia | Florida | TREES, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was placing brush at the table side of a wood chipper when a piece of wood struck his hand, crushing it at the chipper-side locking mechanism and causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2015-03-26 | Lithia | Florida | Central Maintenance and Welding Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing dies on a 400-ton Accupress brake press when one of the lifting bars slipped off the die and crushed the employee's hand between the base of the press and the die. | |||||