| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-04 | Zachary | La | Longhorn Mulching, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Sudden start or stop, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a dozer in an open field. The dozer's blade got caught at a drainage ditch and the dozer stopped suddenly. The employee was thrown from the seat to the floor of the cab and suffered a spinal injury. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-08-19 | Zachary | Louisiana | GEORGIA-PACIFIC LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was attempting to adjust a small pulley belt inside equipment when his left hand was pulled into the chain and sprocket, amputating his left pinky finger (below the middle knuckle) and left ring finger (above middle knuckle). The equipment was live at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-06-06 | Zachary | Louisiana | Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Two maintenance employees received second degree burns on their torso, legs and arms while troubleshooting a pump that moves ambient air, water and paper stock through a sewer/pipe system. The line/pump was plugged and the pump was shut down. After a period of time where the pump was running (not moving water and paper stock) and plugged, the ambient water and paper stock heated up. The maintenance personnel did not realize that the water had heated (temp unknown at time) and proceeded to open t | |||||
| 2017-08-23 | Zachary | Louisiana | Great States Galvanizing, LLC | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was removing a chain on the floor from a self-supporting steel frame when the 1,500-pound frame fell on the employee, lacerating the employee's left arm and fracturing the left foot. | |||||
| 2017-04-20 | Zachary | Louisiana | First Student, Inc. | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee fell to the gravel ground while walking and landed on her left pinky finger, lacerating and breaking it and also sustaining a metacarpal fracture. | |||||
| 2017-02-26 | Zachary | Louisiana | Georgia Pacific Consumer Products, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was working on a paper machine and smashed his middle finger in the machine, resulting in surgical amputation. | |||||
| 2017-01-06 | Zachary | Louisiana | Enviro Hydro Holdings, L.L.C. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| A crew was removing material (hot ash) from the outside of the loop seal on the power boiler. Once they finished removing the loose material, the crew was exiting the platform when the material inside the boiler gave way. The material came out of the boiler's manway door and contacted an employee burning his hands and the back of his legs. | |||||
| 2016-08-22 | Zachary | Louisiana | Georgia Pacific Consumer Products, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee was walking around the facility taking readings when he stepped and fell into a U-drain. Hot condensation in the drain caused thermal burns on both legs below the knee. | |||||
| 2016-07-13 | Zachary | Louisiana | Trade Construction Company, L.L.C. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms of heat stress during a pipeline certification course. | |||||
| 2016-06-16 | Zachary | Louisiana | Georgia Pacific Consumer Operations, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was unlocking equipment for maintenance when he experienced dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. He was hospitalized due to heat-related illness. | |||||
| 2015-09-30 | Zachary | Louisiana | Georgia Pacific | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| At the time of the incident, an employee was operating a core stripper and got his hand caught in a running nip point. | |||||
| 2015-09-08 | Zachary | Louisiana | Trade Construction Company, LLC. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee standing on the back of a trailer during an offload lost their footing. The employee fell to the ground and rolled their right ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle. | |||||