Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-07-16 | Murrayville | Georgia | Custom Metal Roofing, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was moving a load of steel with a forklift. The load shifted, so the employee got off the forklift to straighten up the load. The load fell on him and injured his back. | |||||
2020-05-20 | Murrayville | Georgia | Fieldale Farms Corporation - Murrayville Plant | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working on a vacuum pipe when a metal plate inside the pipe moved and crushed his right thumb. The thumb was partially amputated at the bottom of the nailbed. | |||||
2019-08-26 | Murrayville | Georgia | FIELDALE FARMS LLC | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking toward a trailer to unload it. The employee slipped into the trailer tire, suffering an injury that resulted in knee and calf swelling. | |||||
2019-08-07 | Murrayville | Georgia | Fieldale Farms Corporation - Murrayville Plant | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on the floor while entering the break room, suffering a hip fracture. | |||||
2018-03-02 | Murrayville | Georgia | Fieldale Farms Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was manually feeding bags into a machine when his left index finger was caught and partially amputated between the machine's belt and sprocket. | |||||
2018-02-08 | Murrayville | Georgia | Fieldale Farms Corporation - Murrayville Plant | Mouth | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was preparing to rinse down a line with a water pressure gun when he had trouble removing the gun's water nozzle. As he attempted to remove the nozzle, the high-pressure water shot into and lacerated the inside of his mouth. | |||||
2017-05-18 | Murrayville | Georgia | Fieldale Farms - Murrayville Plant | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee's right forearm was caught and fractured in a moving conveyor belt, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-01-26 | Murrayville | Georgia | Fieldale Farms Corporation - Murrayville Plant | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was using a high pressure hose to wash a conveyor belt. His smock got caught in a sprocket on the machine resulting in an upper right arm fracture. | |||||
2016-03-18 | Murrayville | Georgia | FIELDALE FARMS POULTRY, LLC | Multiple lower extremities locations | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was performing sanitation work when he entered the picking room. There was fog in the room. The employee stumbled and entered a flow of steam from water that was draining out of the scalder tank. He suffered severe burns on his left leg, ankle, and foot, requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||
2015-07-09 | Murrayville | Georgia | Custom Metal Roofing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a press brake to bend metal trim. His right thumb was in the machine opening at the time. When he cycled the machine, it closed down the safety stop, which lacerated his thumb but did not crush it all the way. Part of his thumb bone had to later be surgically amputated. |