| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-25 | Oakwood | Ga | PRIMEX PLASTICS CORPORATION | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| On August 25, 2021, an employee was standing on a platform next to an extruding line when hot plastic was expelled from the line during startup. It landed on the employee's cheek, ear, and forearm, burning the skin. | |||||
| 2018-06-06 | Oakwood | Georgia | Oakwood's Arrow Auto Auction, Inc. | Elbow(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was struck by a reversing vehicle being moved on the lot by another worker. The employee sustained head trauma and an elbow fracture. | |||||
| 2018-03-10 | Oakwood | Georgia | Primex Plastics Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On March 10, 2018, at approximately 2:45 a.m., a temporary employee (injured employee) was assisting another employee operating the carpet separator. The injured employee's right hand entered an unguarded area of the rotary lock system resulting in amputation of the middle finger. | |||||
| 2018-02-20 | Oakwood Village | Ohio | Zoresco Ohio Inc. | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was pushing a cart with an equipment body into a paint booth when the wheel of the cart caught a raised grate in the paint booth floor. The raised grate caused the equipment body to roll onto the employee's hands, causing internal crushing injuries on the right hand and severe lacerations on the left hand. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-04-20 | Oakwood | Georgia | Performance Food Group, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee's finger was caught and amputated in a closing box truck door. The employee also suffered two broken fingers. | |||||
| 2016-03-08 | Oakwood | Texas | Barrilleaux, Inc. | Jaw, chin | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a pressure washer to clean a forklift. The pressure washer lost pressure, so the employee walked around the pressure washer to try and see what was wrong. At that time, the "caps" blew off of the heater element on the pressure washer, striking the employee in the jaw and fracturing it. | |||||
| 2016-02-10 | Oakwood | Georgia | Carter Lumber | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 2/10/16, an employee's hand was caught in the exit roller of an assembly table. The employee was hospitalized and his left index finger was surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2016-01-05 | Oakwood | Georgia | KING'S HAWAIIAN BAKERY SOUTHEAST, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's left-hand index fingertip was amputated while running machines. | |||||
| 2015-12-31 | Oakwood | Georgia | Performance Food Group | Ankle(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was unloading food items from a truck using a hand truck. When the ramp broke, the employee slipped and fell to the ground injuring their chin and breaking the right ankle. | |||||
| 2015-09-17 | Oakwood Village | Ohio | Zoresco Equipment Company | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee feel off an eight foot step ladder and landed on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury. | |||||
| 2015-08-19 | Oakwood Village | Ohio | Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee at the warehouse placed a 35-pound box of degreaser on the forks of a motorized stand-on powered industrial vehicle and hit the wrong button, causing the PIV to move backwards and pin the employee against the rack system. The employee suffered a crushing fracture to the left leg. | |||||
| 2015-03-10 | Oakwood | Georgia | PRIMEX PLASTICS CORP. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee's left third and fourth digits were amputated while removing a jam from an extrusion line shear. | |||||
| 2015-03-01 | Oakwood | Georgia | PRIMEX PLASTICS CORP. | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee amputated approximately a quarter of an inch of a fingertip and also lost part of another fingertip on the same hand. | |||||