Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-21 | Villa Rica | Ga | Struktol Co of America, LLC | Face | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
An employee's face was burned by asphalt mixture. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-09-24 | Villa Rica | Ga | Southwire | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
A cable operator was staging a reel into the payoff. As she was attempting to manually position the shaft into the hole, her right thumb was caught between the metal reel and the drive arm plate resulting in a below the nail bed thumb amputation without bone loss. | |||||
2020-01-13 | Villa Rica | Georgia | Averitt Express | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing out of his truck in the rain when he slipped and fell to the ground, fracturing his right hip and requiring surgery. | |||||
2019-05-19 | Villa Rica | Georgia | Flowers Baking Co | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was moving a 55-gallon drum from a pallet onto a hand truck. The employee's left hand was smashed between two of the 55-gallon drums, causing an amputation to the tip of the middle finger. | |||||
2017-10-07 | Villa Rica | Georgia | Novolex | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee's left hand was caught in a print machine's rollers, amputating the index and middle fingertips. | |||||
2017-09-04 | Villa Rica | Georgia | Triple G Framing Inc | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
An employee lost his balance and fell to the ground while transitioning from the top of a porch into a man lift. He injured his back. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Villa Rica | Georgia | U.S. Pipeline, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other jump to lower level |
An employee was standing on the wheel well of a sweeper vehicle. He was checking the radiator water level immediately after shutting the machine down. As he was filling the radiator with water, it began to bubble up, so he dismounted the machine. He landed oddly on the ground and fractured his left leg above the ankle. | |||||
2017-01-20 | Villa Rica | Georgia | Universal Pasteurization | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was working with a high-pressure processing machine and was trying to put the push arm back when the machine reset and caught the employee's finger between the sheet metal and the push arm. The employee suffered a contusion and amputation to the left ring fingertip. | |||||
2016-01-11 | Villa Rica | Georgia | ATLAS ROOFING COMPANY, INC. | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
An employee was applying sealant on the edge of a roof when he lost his balance and fell 28 feet to the ground below, dislocating his right hip. | |||||
2015-04-30 | Villa Rica | Georgia | Southern Haulers, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on the back of a concrete delivery trailer holding onto the fixed ladder. When he stepped to the side to allow another employee down from the ladder he slipped and fell off the back of the truck. His injury was an open fracture of the right tibia. |