Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-03-15 | Powder Springs | Ga | Publix Super Markets, Inc. | Multiple lower extremities locations | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was standing on a stepladder, replacing an exhaust fan hood vent gutter. He stepped onto a fryer cover, which moved, bringing him into contact with the fryer oil. He suffered second- and third-degree burns to the right leg, ankle, and foot. | |||||
2021-02-10 | Powder Springs | Ga | Harcros Chemicals Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a pallet jack from a loading dock onto a trailer when the pallet jack became stuck in a gap between the dock and the trailer. The employee attempted to pull the jack free of the gap when his hand became pinched in the equipment, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger. | |||||
2017-03-20 | Powder Springs | Georgia | Ajay North America, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was greasing bearings on a running machine and his left index finger was caught in the chain and sprocket resulting in amputation at the first knuckle. The guard was removed at the time. | |||||
2016-04-10 | Powder Springs | Georgia | Kroger | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was standing on a step stool, organizing products in the cooler, when she fell off the stool and fractured her left leg. |