| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-06 | Norcross | Ga | Malibu Norcross | Brain | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| A employee was retrieving a go-kart when it crashed into a rail, resulting in a head injury with a skull fracture. | |||||
| 2021-10-25 | Norcross | Ga | SUZANNA'S KITCHEN, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee noticed about 20 paddles inside a breading machine that were not moving. The employee tried to get them moving when the chain that drives the paddles contacted his fingers, resulting in amputations of his middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2021-07-09 | Norcross | Ga | OLE MEXICAN FOODS, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was checking a flour return valve that was reported as out of position. The employee connected and disconnected the pneumatic air hose to the piston. The piston's reciprocating movement restarted and it struck the tip of the employee's right index finger, causing an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-02-02 | Norcross | Ga | Finger Gun Productions, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| A construction crew was setting up for a scene in a movie. The wind lifted the last two prefabricated walls that were to be installed on the set and they landed on two employees causing fractures and bruises. The walls were approximately fourteen feet long and ten feet tall. One employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-03-27 | Norcross | Georgia | SA Recycling LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee had just adjusted the speed of a shaker table, and was turning to walk away, when the table's belt caught his left glove and pulled his index finger into the pulley. He suffered a fracture and an amputation to the finger. | |||||
| 2020-03-23 | Norcross | Georgia | Tyson Poultry Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a roll of film into place. The roll of film dropped, and his right index finger was caught between the roll positioning rod and the framework of the machine he was placing it on. The fingertip was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2019-08-27 | Norcross | Georgia | Siemens Industry Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was struck by a vehicle in the parking lot. | |||||
| 2019-08-23 | Norcross | Georgia | SENTRY ROOF SERVICES, LLC | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee was working in the warehouse when he tripped and fell, breaking four ribs and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-07-29 | Norcross | Georgia | Metro Public Safety Group LLC | Skull | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| A Metro Public Safety security officer was following someone through a store. As the guard turned a corner, the person they were following struck the guard's face and head with two thick glass bottles, causing a skull fracture. | |||||
| 2019-07-26 | Norcross | Georgia | Novolex | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was running a bag machine. When he attempted to clean a roller his right index finger was amputated. The roller was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-07-16 | Norcross | Georgia | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | Multiple head locations | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee had been performing regular packing duties. When he finished processing a cart of boxes, he went to the cooler to stack the boxes onto a storage cart inside the cooler. While transporting the boxes, he tripped over the corner of a pallet and struck his head on a stationary cart inside the cooler. The employee was hospitalized with a bruised head and a cut to the nose. | |||||
| 2019-06-04 | Norcross | Georgia | Firstfleet, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was trying to lock a trailer into a loading dock when he was pinned between the trailer and the dock. He suffered a crushed pelvis and femoral artery. | |||||
| 2019-04-11 | Norcross | Georgia | WASTE PRO OF GEORGIA, INC. | Head | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway |
| A subcontractor employee was working on a residential trash collection route. As he crossed the street to get to a customer's residence, a passing vehicle struck him. He suffered head fractures and trauma. | |||||
| 2019-03-17 | Norcross | Georgia | Home Depot | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was on a truck, loading a customer's cargo bed. The employee fell from the back of the bed, suffering a broken arm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-02-15 | Norcross | Georgia | Garden Films Production, LLC | Multiple body parts | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was rehearsing a motorcycle stunt for a motion picture: a maneuver in which the motorcycle was stopped on the front wheel with a sidecar attached. The motorcycle's handlebars locked to the left, causing the motorcycle to tip over and the sidecar to strike the employee. It broke the employee's left ankle and collarbone, as well as two ribs. | |||||
| 2019-02-11 | Norcross | Georgia | Veritiv Operating Company | Nonclassifiable | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee was on a forklift loading/unloading trailers when the trailer he was on pulled away from the dock door. The forklift with the employee strapped in fell four feet and landed upright. The employee suffered a fractured vertebra. | |||||
| 2019-02-05 | Norcross | Georgia | Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A maintenance employee was making adjustments to the measurements on a tube laser. The employee was inside the inter-lock doors when the machine started up. The employee was struck in the torso by the machine arm and suffered ruptured intestines and internal bleeding. | |||||
| 2018-09-25 | Norcross | Georgia | Wholesale Wood Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A mechanic had just changed out a broken sprocket on a yard conveyor. The conveyor was powered up, and the sprocket broke his left little finger. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-23 | Norcross | Georgia | Novalex, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was threading paper on an inner folding machine's rollers. At the same time, another employee began turning the manual hand wheel to turn the rollers. The injured employee struggled to position the paper and reached around the vacuum drum to help thread the paper when his hand contacted the blade, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The blade was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-07-06 | Norcross | Georgia | Bak E-Z, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was moving a packaging uncoiler to the cutter/sealer when her hand entered the cutter/sealer, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-04-10 | Norcross | Georgia | Parker Engineering and Mechanical, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding coil into a coil line machine. While readjusting the coil, the employee's gloved right hand was caught in the rollers. A strip of skin was removed from the employee's right index finger. The coil machine was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-09-19 | Norcross | Georgia | US Foods | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was operating a pallet jack to select dry product in an aisle around 5:30 p.m. along with several other pallet jack operators. He was walking between his pallet jack and a coworker's parked pallet jack when his pallet jack rolled forward and caught his right leg between the two pieces of equipment, fracturing his lower leg/ankle. | |||||
| 2017-09-03 | Norcross | Georgia | Pappas Restaurants, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cleaning kitchen knives when a knife punctured his abdomen. | |||||
| 2017-08-01 | Norcross | Georgia | Banana Republic | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on a 4-foot ladder to remove tape from the store window. The employee fell from the ladder and fractured his left leg. | |||||
| 2017-07-28 | Norcross | Georgia | Dyke Industries, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee fell three feet off a metal rack system, resulting in head trauma requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-04-26 | Norcross | Georgia | Bak EZ | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was sanitizing the muffin machine auger when her right middle finger was caught in the running machine, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-03-31 | Norcross | Georgia | Ryerson Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was lifting sheet metal bundles with a crane. He intended to separate and pass a strap between two bundles. The top one fell and trapped his left middle fingertip, amputating it with no bone loss. | |||||
| 2017-03-28 | Norcross | Georgia | Ryerson | Knee(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| The employee was using a hoist to lift a bundle of steel onto a flatbed trailer. The strap that held the bundle became stuck on one of the latches on the flatbed and the employee attempted to loosen it. The bundle of steel came loose and struck the employee's knee. | |||||
| 2017-01-31 | Norcross | Georgia | Averitt Express | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| The employee was switching trailers. While climbing into the trailer, the employee tripped over something and fell backwards out of the truck injuring his right elbow. | |||||
| 2016-08-09 | Norcross | Georgia | Southeast Spreading Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Bites and stings |
| While spreading pine straw, an employee was bitten by a spider and had an allergic reaction (swelling and inflammation), requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-04-05 | Norcross | Georgia | Parts Authority | Brain | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
| An employee was working in an elevated platform (cherry picker) that stopped working. A coworker came to rescue him, and as he stepped off one platform onto the other, he slipped and struck his head. He was working 10 feet above the lower level and was wearing a body harness and retractable lanyard at the time. | |||||
| 2015-12-28 | Norcross | Georgia | FEDEX Ground | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was moving and pulling packages from the conveyor when his right hand was caught in the conveyor. His right ring fingertip was degloved. | |||||
| 2015-12-24 | Norcross | Georgia | Waste Eliminator, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking between a trailer and a tractor. The tractor driver was unaware of the employee and backed up to connect to the trailer. The employee was pinned between the tractor and trailer resulting in fractured ribs, a fractured jaw, and a fractured shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-12-15 | Norcross | Georgia | AT&T | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell down the stairs from a walkway to the parking lot en route to their personal vehicle at the end of the work shift. | |||||
| 2015-09-24 | Norcross | Georgia | Staff Right, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 9/24/15, at 7:15 a.m., an employee was operating a brake press. The light curtain on the press break was inoperative at the time. The employee sustained an amputation of the right index finger's first knuckle. | |||||
| 2015-08-19 | Norcross | Georgia | U-TEC CONSTRUCTION , INC | Nonclassifiable | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was installing light posts when the derrick truck swung the light post and contacted the power line behind them. The trailer holding the post became energized, and the employee received severe electrical burns. | |||||
| 2015-07-27 | Norcross | Georgia | BLAKE & PENDLETON, INC. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee climbed a ladder to access equipment on a mezzanine at a customer site. The ladder slipped out from under him, and he fell and fractured his L2 vertebra in two places. | |||||
| 2015-07-05 | Norcross | Georgia | OFS FITEL, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee's left finger was amputated while changing optical fiber spool for rewinding. | |||||
| 2015-05-19 | Norcross | Georgia | The Atlanta Journal Constitution | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c. |
| An employee tripped and fell while stepping off of a palletizer, resulting in a dislocated right shoulder with fracture. | |||||