Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-07-03 | Norman Park | Georgia | Hamilton Growers, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been picking squash in the fields all day. He sustained heat stroke and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-08-23 | Norman Park | Georgia | SOUTHERN VALLEY FRUIT & VEGETABLE, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee passed out while having lunch in a packing shed, requiring hospitalization for dehydration. | |||||
2017-01-05 | Norman Park | Georgia | Hamilton Growers, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was working at the shop running a 10-inch-long, 3-inch-wide piece of metal through a homemade roller machine. The employee was attempting to curve the piece of metal so that it would go on a wheel. While running the piece of metal through the roller, the employee's index finger was caught between the metal and the roller. The employee's right index fingertip was smashed and cut, resulting in a soft tissue amputation. | |||||
2016-06-11 | Norman Park | Georgia | SOUTHERN VALLEY FRUIT & VEGETABLE, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
The employee was pushing boxes down the conveyor line when a box got stuck on the line. As the employee tried to release it from where it was caught, her finger became caught in the chain on the conveyor line resulting in a partial amputation of the fourth finger on her left hand. | |||||
2015-10-15 | Norman Park | Georgia | NORMAN PARK GIN & WAREHOUSE, INC. | Forearm(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee's arm got tangled in tarp as he tried to keep it tightly rolled in the tarp equipment's roller. Both bones in his left forearm were fractured. |