| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-07 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Southern Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was changing the motor and motor sheath of an HVAC unit. As the motor was rotated, his right ring finger was caught between its belt and pulley. The finger was amputated above the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-04-17 | Waynesboro | Georgia | CBI Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was manually positioning a 13-foot long, 460-pound steel I-beam with his hands onto cribbing with the assistance of a forklift when other I-beams stationed on the forks of the lift shifted. This action resulted in the employee having his right-hand middle finger caught between I-beams, which resulted in a partial amputation to his finger. | |||||
| 2019-05-16 | Waynesboro | Mississippi | Mar-Jac Poultry MS | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other jump to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was on a manlift changing light bulbs. Rail cars were being moved and the employee felt like the rail car was going to hit the lift therefore, he jumped approximately 10 to 12 feet to the ground resulting in a fractured left arm and a fractured right leg and ankle. | |||||
| 2018-09-18 | Waynesboro | Georgia | C.A. Murren & Sons, Company Mid-Atlantic, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to set a pylon when the nylon sling that was holding the vertical pipe lost some tension and slipped over the employee's left pinky finger, then cinched back onto the finger and crushed it. The employee's pinky finger had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2018-05-29 | Waynesboro | Pennsylvania | Domino's Pizza LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was diagnosing an issue with a trailer lift gate when his right ring fingertip was caught and amputated in the lift gate's pinch point. | |||||
| 2017-09-20 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Day & Zimmermann NPS | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was adjusting an energy-isolated industrial fan belt and pulley. The employee was manually rotating the motor and assembly when the employee's right middle finger was caught between the belt and pulley, lacerating and fracturing it. | |||||
| 2017-02-20 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Fluor Enterprises, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was holding the rigging line while he was signaling the operator to lift the load. As the load was lifted up, it shifted and his left hand little finger was caught between the rigging strap and the lifting box and was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-01-19 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Flour Enterprises, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was walking on a steel beam that was lying on the ground when it flipped over and pinned his leg between it and another beam. His right leg was fractured above the ankle, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-01-13 | Waynesboro | Mississippi | DeepWell Energy Services, LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| Employees were repairing a headache rack for a pickup truck. The headache rack was taken off the truck and placed on jack stands; however, the headache rack was not level. The employees attempted to level the headache rack by placing another jack stand under the rack. As the jack stand was being placed under the headache rack, the rack fell off the jack stands. An employee was on top of the headache as it was being leveled. The employee fell off the rack and landed on wooden pallets that were ne | |||||
| 2016-09-07 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Fluor Enterprises, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were removing form panels from an upper elevation while working from the basket of a lift. One of the employees had his right hand on the basket's handrail, which came in contact with the building's steel beam. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the right ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-08-05 | Waynesboro | Mississippi | Scotch Plywood Company | Upper and lower limb(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee stepped into a pit containing hot water while performing cleanup duties, suffering burns to the lower legs and arms. | |||||
| 2016-07-25 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Fluor Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was pushing a plate compactor into an excavator bucket when his left pinky finger entered the thumb of the excavator, fracturing it. | |||||
| 2016-05-20 | Waynesboro | Mississippi | Deepwell Energy Services, LLC. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a sledge hammer to install a master pin into the track of a track hoe. When the employee struck the pin with the sledge hammer, a small piece of metal splintered off the pin and struck the employee in the right leg below the knee, puncturing the leg and lacerating an artery. | |||||
| 2016-02-03 | Waynesboro | Pennsylvania | Beck Manufacturing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating the T-80 Kauffman Tapper machine. When he reached into the machine to clear a shaving, he bumped his hand on the spinning tap and suffered a partial amputation on the right index finger involving skin and flesh with no bone loss. | |||||
| 2015-06-12 | Waynesboro | Georgia | Collins Gin, LLC | Foot (feet) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was hospitalized after getting his feet caught in a machine. | |||||
| 2015-02-03 | Waynesboro | Mississippi | Mar-Jac Poultry MS, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| Employee was caught between a backing 18 wheeler and the truck dock. | |||||
| 2015-01-07 | Waynesboro | Mississippi | Scotch Plywood | Face | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Worker was burned by hot ash that blew on his face when he opened the ash hopper panel. | |||||