Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-09-02 | Moultrie | Ga | JDJ Operations, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
When an employee turned the control on the robotic extruder machine to auto the sensor on the gate malfunctioned and allowed the robot to operate. The robot swung and hit the employee on the right side causing broken ribs and a punctured lung. | |||||
2020-07-24 | Moultrie | Georgia | UFP Moultrie, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
While an employee was loading a board onto a chain, a saw blade lacerated his index, middle, and ring fingers. | |||||
2020-03-18 | Moultrie | Georgia | UFP Moultrie, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was being trained to operate a saw machine. The employee was guiding pieces of wood from the chain deck conveyor into the saw. The employee's fingertip got caught between the wood being pushed and the chain conveyor's guard. When the employee felt his fingertip get pinched he pulled his hand out. His left pinky fingertip was fractured and a portion of the fingertip was pulled off. | |||||
2020-02-27 | Moultrie | Georgia | Canfor Southern Pine, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
A maintenance employee was visually inspecting a stacker package maker to troubleshoot a reported issue. He placed his right leg inside the roll case area of the machine to obtain a better visual. As he was looking upwards in an attempt to identify the issue, the stacker activated and a package of wood came down the roll case area and struck the employee's right leg. The employee sustained fractures to the right tibia and fibula. | |||||
2020-02-24 | Moultrie | Georgia | Trawick Construction Company, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was standing on top of stacked wooden utility poles that were positioned on a flatbed trailer while connecting lifting chains to one of the poles to be unloaded. While connecting the lifting chains, the employee lost his balance and fell approximately 10 feet to the earthen ground, sustaining a fractured right tibia. | |||||
2019-07-30 | Moultrie | Georgia | UFP Moultrie, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
After clearing a jammed board, an employee was making a final adjustment on the molder/planer machine. Material was fed into the machine, causing the employee's hand to get pushed into the machine. The employee's left hand contacted the machine's cutting head and was amputated. | |||||
2019-03-20 | Moultrie | Georgia | ESG Operations, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
A welder was welding a nipple to a tank when a flame shot from the tank opening and caused second degree burns to another employee's chest. The injured employee was hospitalized. There may have been some residual cleaning product left after cleaning the oil from the cut (2-inch hole) where the weld was going to be made. | |||||
2019-01-04 | Moultrie | Georgia | Farmers Gin & Peanut Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was sweeping a floor when a cotton lint-cleaning machine partially amputated the three middle fingers of his right hand. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-09-18 | Moultrie | Georgia | SANDERSON FARMS, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was holding a bearing and shaft while using a hammer when the hammer hit his left middle finger, causing an avulsion that resulted in a surgical amputation at the first joint. | |||||
2018-05-01 | Moultrie | Georgia | Cabbage, Inc. | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was cleaning the top of a vacuum tube cooler when he fell off the top of the vacuum tube and onto the concrete, breaking his knee. | |||||
2018-03-25 | Moultrie | Georgia | Borzynski's of Georgia, Inc | Head | Struck against stationary object or equipment while rising |
An employee was working underneath a machine and when he stood up he hit the back of his head on a PVC part that is fixed to the machine. | |||||
2017-10-10 | Moultrie | Georgia | Lancaster Mangement Services, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
During very hot conditions, an employee who had been operating a forklift appeared disoriented when he dismounted the forklift. He then passed out, striking his head on the floor, due to heat stress. | |||||
2017-08-03 | Moultrie | Georgia | NATIONAL BEEF PACKING COMPANY, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a metal hook to remove pork loins from a metal grid conveyor belt coming from a freezer tunnel when the hook was caught in the metal grid and his left thumb was pinched between the conveyor belt and hook handle. His left thumb tip was amputated below the nail. | |||||
2016-08-17 | Moultrie | Georgia | RTD Construction, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell 8 feet from the top of a water clarifier that was being constructed for a water treatment facility. | |||||
2016-07-28 | Moultrie | Georgia | NATIONAL BEEF PACKING COMPANY, LLC | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was standing by a stationary forklift when a second forklift passed by. The employee was caught between the two lifts, breaking a leg and requiring surgery. | |||||
2016-05-18 | Moultrie | Georgia | L & M Companies Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
An employee was operating a forklift in the produce warehouse. The employee started feeling dizzy and having blurred vision. The employee then sat down to rest and noticed loss of feeling in the hands and face. The employee was hospitalized with high levels of carbon monoxide in their system. | |||||
2016-02-25 | Moultrie | Georgia | Canfor Beadles, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a log-bucking saw and locked it out to replace a hydraulic valve. He then had to re-energize the valve to bleed out air from the hydraulic cylinder. When moving the cylinder in and out, his finger was pinched between the saw guard and saw structure. His left-hand middle finger was amputated at the first joint. | |||||
2015-12-16 | Moultrie | Georgia | Farmers Gin & Peanuts Company, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was cleaning the battery condenser between catwalks while standing on one of the machine's discharge side, between a catwalk and a 45 degree slide. The employee slid down the battery condenser slide (45 degree angle) and fell into the cotton press. The press was not running at the time of the incident. The employee sustained lacerations to the back of the head, fracture lumbar vertebrae and a collapsed lung. |