| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-14 | Suwanee | Ga | ABM - Facility Services | Forearm(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was blowing off debris and baking products from a conveyor belt using an air gun to prepare for the next production run. In the process of blowing off the conveyor belt, the air gun got caught in the belt, causing it to spin and strike the employee in the left arm. The employee suffered a fracture above their left wrist. | |||||
| 2021-08-10 | Suwanee | Ga | THE KROGER CO. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking across the parking lot to their car when they slipped and suffered a right ankle fracture that required surgery. | |||||
| 2021-04-30 | Suwanee | Ga | Kendall Development Services LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was backing up a compact roller when he ran over some rebar, which punctured a tire and caused it to go flat. The compact roller became unbalanced and fell to its side, injuring the employee and resulting in four broken toes. | |||||
| 2021-03-09 | Suwanee | Ga | AZZ WSI LLC | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking in the shop when he slipped on a plastic corner protector and fell to the floor, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-02-22 | Suwanee | Ga | The Kroger Company | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped on plastic shrink wrap and fell to the floor inside a cooler. The employee suffered an injury to the left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-10-19 | Suwanee | Ga | Rossini North America, LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a lathe when the mandrel struck the employee's arm and broke it. | |||||
| 2020-09-16 | Suwanee | Ga | Dish Network LLC | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was using a forklift to fill orders in a warehouse and attempting to retrieve a pallet between two stacks of other pallets. As he was driving between the two stacks, his foot was caught on a pallet on the left side of the forklift, pinning his leg between the pallet and the forklift. His left leg broke, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-07-31 | Suwanee | Georgia | McKesson Corporation | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee was operating a pallet rider when his foot slipped off the vehicle and it lacerated his foot near the ankle. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-07-01 | Suwanee | Georgia | YANCEY BROS. CO. | Head and trunk | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was at a construction site, standing beside a vehicle track being carried by a forklift. The forklift lowered the track. As it hit the ground, the employee lost his balance and fell. A portion of the track slid off the forks and struck him as he tried to stand up. He suffered a broken back vertebra, a broken left eye socket, and a laceration to the back of the head. | |||||
| 2020-05-26 | Suwanee | Georgia | Kubota Tractor Corporation | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking in the warehouse, picking parts for an order. The employee turned a corner and collided with another worker, head-to-head. One of the workers fell to the floor fracturing her left shoulder. The other worker was not injured. | |||||
| 2020-03-24 | Suwanee | Georgia | Essendant Company | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| A driver was raising a trailer's freight door when an item fell on him, breaking his elbow and giving him a concussion. | |||||
| 2020-01-20 | Suwanee | Georgia | Publix Supermarket Store #615 | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking when her prosthetic shifted and she fell to the ground, dislocating her hip. | |||||
| 2020-01-09 | Suwanee | Georgia | Infinity Polymers,LLC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee opened the grinder for inspection and cleaning. He stepped up on some angles on the front of the grinder, held onto the machinery with one hand, and rotated the grinder blade with the other hand. As he was manually rotating the blades in reverse, his left middle fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-09-14 | Suwanee | Georgia | DOLLAR CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was directing a rear-discharge ready-mix concrete truck that was reversing so its discharge chute could reach the receiving hopper located at the rear of a stationary pump truck. As the employee was adjusting the chute on the concrete ready-mix truck, the ready-mix truck rolled forward, then backed up, pinning the employee between a pipe connected to the pump truck hopper and the ready-mix truck's DOT bumper. The employee sustained a leg hematoma that required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Suwanee | Georgia | Millenium Mat | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to adjust material in a machine when the employee was pulled into the machine, fracturing the left arm and ribs and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-08-15 | Suwanee | Georgia | Pilkenton Construction Inc | Whole body | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
| The injured employee was applying flammable, solvent-based adhesive on the roof. As he walked by another employee using a torch to dry the roof, the employee's clothes ignited. The injured employee then entered the area where the adhesive was being applied and a fire started. The injured employee sustained burns to about 80 percent of his body and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-08-07 | Suwanee | Georgia | Premier Electrical Staffing | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was using a scissor lift to hang ceiling wires. As he was getting off the lift, he slipped, lost balance, and fell backward, breaking his femur and hip. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-02-23 | Suwanee | Georgia | Gwinnett Lumber Remanufacturing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee got his right hand caught in the blade of the upcut saw and sustained an amputation above the knuckle to the ring finger and cuts to the middle and pinkie fingers. | |||||
| 2017-09-07 | Suwanee | Georgia | Jose Sasso | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was framing the garage roof at a residential home when he fell from an 8-foot elevation, suffering a head injury. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-04-04 | Suwanee | Georgia | PRICE INDUSTRIES, INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee suffered the amputation of the left index finger while trying to dislodge a piece that was stuck in the die of the machine. | |||||
| 2017-01-20 | Suwanee | Georgia | Schwans Global Supply Chains | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee fell while running through the parking lot, injuring his right knee and right shoulder. | |||||
| 2016-08-26 | Suwanee | Georgia | Suwanee Sports Academy | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was getting equipment out of the shed located behind the main building. He slipped and fell, fracturing his ankle. | |||||
| 2016-08-05 | Suwanee | Georgia | Habasit USA | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee operating a table saw amputated his right index, thumb, and pinky fingertips while cutting material. | |||||
| 2016-07-25 | Suwanee | Georgia | Two Men And A Truck | Multiple body parts | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee was moving furniture and started having chest pains and pain in his left arm. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-05-31 | Suwanee | Georgia | Gwinnett Lumber Remanufacturing, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A worker was operating wood machinery and suffered an amputation of the left pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-04-29 | Suwanee | Georgia | Hussmann Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to drill a hole in a metal plate with a drill press. As he held a piece of metal in his left hand, the drill press caused the metal plate to rotate with the drill bit and his hand to move with it. He amputated his left index finger and lacerated his left thumb. | |||||
| 2016-04-29 | Suwanee | Georgia | Hussman Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee suffered a left index finger amputation and multiple left thumb lacerations when his glove was caught in the point of operation of a rotating drill press. | |||||
| 2015-09-25 | Suwanee | Georgia | FLOWERS BAKERY OF SUWANEE, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On 09/25/2015, at approximately 4:28 p.m., a maintenance employee was injured while working on a drive chain and sprocket. The employee's right hand became caught in the equipment, fracturing the right index, middle, and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2015-02-10 | Suwanee | Georgia | PAK-LITE, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Worker on the unwind end of the extruder was attempting to remove some material that was wrapped around a roller. He reached over and under the guard without disengaging the rollers. His left thumb was caught between the two rollers and he was degloved from the first knuckle. | |||||