| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-10 | Roswell | Ga | Michael Peeples | Multiple head locations | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was directing the track loader as it backed up. A half-inch double-braided polyester rope that being used to remove tree trunks broke and struck the employee resulting in a traumatic head injury and the loss of their left eye. | |||||
| 2021-06-23 | Roswell | Nm | U.S. Border Patrol | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| A Border Patrol Agent trainee became ill during formation run and then began to have seizures. He was hospitalized with heat stroke. | |||||
| 2021-02-17 | Roswell | Ga | Summers Roofing Co., Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| On February 17, 2021, at 4:00 p.m., an employee performing roofing activities fell approximately 15 feet from the edge of the roof to the concrete surface below resulting in a fracture to their back and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-03-20 | Roswell | Georgia | Excel Electrical Technologies, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee was installing insulated blankets into a knife switch for future work. As the employee was attaching a blanket with a clip, an arc flash burned his hand, shoulder, and ankle. | |||||
| 2019-05-02 | Roswell | Georgia | CastleRock Development Services | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking toward an excavator to get the operator's attention when he fell in dirt. The excavator then rolled over his left leg and broke his tibia. | |||||
| 2018-09-19 | Roswell | Georgia | Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was driving a utility task vehicle, spraying weeds on a trail at a high school. The employee became light-headed, possibly from heat stress/exhaustion. | |||||
| 2018-01-03 | Roswell | Georgia | Auto Zone Store #3193 | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was helping a customer in the parking lot. The customer's car hood was up and the employee was leaning into the engine compartment when the customer decided to start the engine. A fan or belt injured the employee's right hand, resulting in an amputation to the index fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-06-09 | Roswell | Georgia | BPG Inspections, LLC | Brain | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was walking up the stairs to go into an attic when the stairs collapsed and he fell one story, suffering a head concussion. | |||||
| 2017-04-26 | Roswell | Georgia | 5 Star Solutions | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet |
| On April 26, 2017, an employee was working on the second floor installing G-track on top of the shaft when the employee stepped into a stairwell and fell approximately 9 feet. The employee landed on a PVC pipe at the bottom of the stairwell and sustained bone fractures and a broken sternum. | |||||
| 2016-09-17 | Roswell | Georgia | Atlanta Lubes One, LLC. | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was guiding a vehicle into the bay. The coworker driving the vehicle was unfamiliar with it and accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake, pinning the employee between vehicles. The employee suffered a right leg injury. | |||||
| 2016-07-29 | Roswell | Georgia | UPS Ground Freight Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| The employee was making delivery rounds and started to feel nauseous and began vomiting. The employee was admitted to the hospital for dehydration. | |||||
| 2016-05-17 | Roswell | Georgia | KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION | Hand(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was cleaning adhesive buildup from the surface of a driven rubber nip roll on an adhesive applicator unit. The employee's hand and forearm were pulled forward and upward by the machine, subsequently pressing and holding the back of the employee's left hand against the heated surface of the adhesive die tip. The employee suffered a burn across the back of the hand between the wrist and the knuckles. | |||||
| 2016-01-07 | Roswell | Georgia | Flavio Salazar Masonry | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning the concrete mixer with a stick when he lost his balance. He dropped the stick and tried to grab hold of something. His hand went into the open lid of the mixer, lacerating the first three fingers on his right hand. | |||||
| 2015-09-03 | Roswell | Georgia | Layne Christensen Company | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was forming a footing for a water treatment plant. He was working inside a 4-feet-tall trench form and fell while crossing back over to the outside of the trench, breaking his right tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2015-07-21 | Roswell | Georgia | CVS | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee stepped through a cardboard box display and tripped and fell to the ground. The employee injured the right hip and was hospitalized with a possible hip fracture. | |||||
| 2015-06-20 | Roswell | Georgia | Davey Tree Expert Company | Pelvis | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
| An employee was cutting a stump with a chain saw when the tree fell over and rolled into the employee, fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
| 2015-04-03 | Roswell | Georgia | Sherwin Williams, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee went to a customer's new construction site to look at a paint issue. He went upstairs to the second floor hallway to look at the issue and stepped back into an open area with no railing installed. He fell 10 feet to the ground and was knocked unconscious. The employee fractured his ribs. | |||||