Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-03 | Toccoa | Ga | Patterson Pump Company | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was descending a ladder when he fell from the second rung of the ladder and hit his head on a parked lift truck. The employee suffered blurred vision, a headache, a bump on the back of his head, and a brain bleed that required hospitalization. | |||||
2021-03-29 | Toccoa | Ga | Patterson Pump Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employees were using an overhead crane to put a 500-pound water pump onto three V-shaped stands. The pump shifted, and an employee's right middle fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle by a hook from a strap on the pump and the stand. | |||||
2019-04-05 | Toccoa | Georgia | Employment Staffing | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
A temporary employee was lifting boxes of parts when the box fell on the employee's right foot, resulting in the amputation of the big toe and the second toe. | |||||
2018-07-06 | Toccoa | Georgia | C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., Inc. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee's foot slipped off of the second step of a loader as he began to climb into the cab. He fell to the ground and fractured his left hip, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-08-21 | Toccoa | Georgia | MWL, LLC | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was pushing lumber back into a chopper saw when the saw cut his hand between the thumb and index finger. | |||||
2015-09-09 | Toccoa | Georgia | CMC of Georgia, Inc. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell and broke her hip while descending from a ladder. | |||||
2015-04-30 | Toccoa | Georgia | Caterpillar, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee working on a core machine in the core room had the right pinkie finger amputated as a result of injury. The spreader box stopped indexing across the carrier. The employee went around to the back side of the core machine and noticed that the dowel pin had broke and the back spreader box support wheel was dislodged from the rail and appeared stuck. The employee pushed on the bracket just behind the wheel to try to get the spreader box back on rails and the wheel shattered. The pressu | |||||
2015-04-08 | Toccoa | Georgia | Capitol Materials, Incorporated | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee standing on his delivery truck's bed fell off and hit his head on the pavement. He was hospitalized with head injuries. |