Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-01 | Thomasville | Pa | York Building Products Company Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An error came up on a pallet receiver table's machine panel and an employee went to the pallet ejector to troubleshoot. The employee was resetting a limit switch when his thumb got caught by a moving chain. The employee suffered a laceration that resulted in a revision amputation. | |||||
2021-05-19 | Thomasville | Al | Louisiana-Pacific Corporation | Multiple upper extremities locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning conveyors. His right hand was caught in the ingoing nip point of the tail end rollers. The conveyor pulled in his arm up to the shoulder, injuring the hand, arm, and shoulder. | |||||
2021-05-19 | Thomasville | Ga | Blackwater Timber Co. LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
A molder machine jammed and was turned off. Its still rotating knives caught an employee's hand, causing the amputation of the index finger. | |||||
2021-02-16 | Thomasville | Ga | Ambassador Personnel Inc | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
A temporary employee was using a stand-up forklift when his left lower leg was trapped and crushed between the forklift and a steel cone. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-06-03 | Thomasville | Alabama | Thomasville Lumber Company, Inc. | Arm(s) | Small-scale (limited) fire |
An employee was starting a fire in a boiler. The fire flashed back, causing first-degree burns to the employee's hands and second-degree burns to the arms. | |||||
2020-05-23 | Thomasville | Alabama | South Alabama Electric Company, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was checking the voltage of an on-ground 150 kVA transformer when the transformer shorted out and shocked the employee. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-03-27 | Thomasville | Georgia | Southeastern Grocers, LLC. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell out of his truck while arriving at work. His left hip was injured on the parking lot surface and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
2020-02-28 | Thomasville | Alabama | Thomasville Lumber Company, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
An employee was pulling a board with a bar from the rerun deck. The board struck the employee's lower right leg and fractured it. | |||||
2020-01-07 | Thomasville | Alabama | Thomasville Lumber Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was clearing jammed boards on a conveyor. The conveyor chain caught the employee's hands, causing the amputation of four fingers on the left hand and two on the right hand. | |||||
2019-07-01 | Thomasville | Pennsylvania | Waggoner Construction Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing back into a dump truck when he lost his balance and fell backwards, striking his head, back, and ribs on the ground. His head required stitches, and his back and ribs were possibly broken. | |||||
2019-03-25 | Thomasville | Georgia | Flowers Baking Company of Thomasville, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a wrench to get a conveyor back on track when the wrench slipped, causing an injury to the employee's right index finger that resulted in a finger amputation. | |||||
2018-08-06 | Thomasville | Georgia | Rose City Health and Rehabilitation Center | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was down on one knee putting away supplies. As she rose from that position, she became dizzy, took a step, and fell to the floor, fracturing her right hip. | |||||
2018-07-11 | Thomasville | Pennsylvania | KBS Incorporated | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was vacuuming the cab of his truck, missed all of the steps while exiting the truck and fell. The employee sustained a brain bleed. | |||||
2018-06-22 | Thomasville | Georgia | Turbine Engine Components Technologies Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was setting up and adjusting a milling machine. While one of the machine's gearbox doors was open, the machine activated and the gearbox pinched the employee's left thumb, causing a partial amputation. | |||||
2018-04-10 | Thomasville | Georgia | CIVES CORPORATION | Nonclassifiable | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was stacking/moving steel beams when they became unstable and fell against the employee. The employee was pinned and suffered bruises, scrapes, and soreness. | |||||
2018-02-27 | Thomasville | Georgia | Averus, Inc. | Heel(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee slipped while climbing an exterior fixed ladder, fell approximately 14 feet to the ground, and suffered a fractured heel bone, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-09-18 | Thomasville | Georgia | Canfor Southern Pine | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was attempting to cross a planer line when a barricade was lifted and a piece of wood struck him, fracturing his pelvis and rib. The planer was not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
2017-08-06 | Thomasville | Alabama | Louisiana-Pacific Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was repairing a flat tire when it came off its rim and struck the employee. The employee suffered a broken rib and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-07-28 | Thomasville | Alabama | Thomasville Lumber Company, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
An employee was installing an electrical box (110 outlet) and received an electrical shock causing electrical injuries and burns on the center chest (entry point) and burns on the left hand (exit point). | |||||
2016-07-23 | Thomasville | Alabama | Thomasville Lumber Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attaching the bush hog arm to the tractor hitch. The arm slipped over the hitch and pinched the tip of the employee's right middle finger resulting in the avulsion of the fingertip and nail. | |||||
2016-07-20 | Thomasville | Georgia | American Signature, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
While conducting maintenance on the battery charger of an order picker, an employee's right index fingertip was caught between the chain and cog of the order picker and amputated when the order picker was activated. | |||||
2016-04-29 | Thomasville | Georgia | American Fresh Foods | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attempting to remove hamburger meat around the impact area of a hamburger patty press when his right middle fingertip was amputated by the press point. | |||||
2015-06-05 | Thomasville | Pennsylvania | Church & Dwight Co., Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
On or about June 5, 2015, at 4:45 a.m., an employee was replacing a gasket in the hot water line. As he disconnected the hose, hot water doused his lower left leg, resulting in second degree burns and hospitalization. The line was not drained of water at the time of the incident. | |||||
2015-04-13 | Thomasville | Georgia | Gross Vault & Monument Co., Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee sustained injuries to his legs when the motor block of a tractor blew apart as he started it up. |