Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-09 | Stone Mountain | Ga | THERMO PAC, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was feeding a new roll of film into a packing machine when the air-actuated jaw closed and reopened on the tip of his right index finger, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
2021-01-27 | Stone Mountain | Ga | PEPSI BEVERAGES COMPANY | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was at a customer site delivering product. He was trying to lower his lift gate when the dock leveler was engaged. He fell between the dock and the lift gate and injured his legs. | |||||
2020-08-20 | Stone Mountain | Ga | Maxim Crane Works | Upper and lower limb(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity |
An employee was disassembling a mobile crane. Part of the crane came in contact with a service line for a cell tower. The employee sustained electrical burns to the left arm and right foot. | |||||
2020-07-02 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | Andrew Electric Co., Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was on a scissor lift, pulling data cable. The lift struck and injured his stomach. | |||||
2020-03-16 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | Oldcastle Infrastructure | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was transferring finished product (cured concrete) from a staging area. As he moved a piece of wood cribbing, his left hand was pinched between the concrete and the cribbing. He was hospitalized for a hand injury. | |||||
2020-01-31 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | The Conlan Company | Pelvis | Fall, slip, trip, n.e.c. |
An employee was removing 65-foot concrete wall braces using a powered industrial truck and a choker sling. He was holding a tag line at the end of the brace. When the brace was removed the balance was uneven. The brace cantilevered and seesawed the employee 20 feet into the air. He struck the ground, fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
2019-09-11 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | THERMO PAC, LLC | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell while walking on the concrete floor in a parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a leg injury. | |||||
2018-04-04 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | Thermo Pac, LLC (Ameriqual Group) | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was cleaning a kettle and added chlorine to the hot water and chemicals that were already in the kettle. When he added the chlorine, the water bubbled up and burned him, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-24 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | American Medical Response | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
An employee was exiting the side door of the patient area of the ambulance when the door closed on his left hand, amputating his left ring fingertip. | |||||
2015-12-08 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | PrideStaff, Inc | Knee(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
A warehouse employee fell while climbing over a forklift guardrail and broke her knee. | |||||
2015-11-17 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | PRECISION HOSE, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was loading and guiding tubing into the #1 forming head on the corrugator. As the tubing was loading his right hand got caught in the machine and crushed the middle finger. | |||||
2015-09-15 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | Comcast | Upper arm(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee fell 20 feet from a ladder and fractured his upper right arm in two places. | |||||
2015-05-18 | Stone Mountain | Georgia | Thermo Pac, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee received a partial (1/4-inch) amputation to her left middle finger. She was adjusting a wait on top of the Prodo Pak filling machine when her finger got caught in a pinch point and her fingertip was severed. |