Gainesville Florida – Machine Injury & Accidents

Gainesville Florida is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. The population was 193,095 at the 2010 census.

Based on 2010 U.S. Census data, Gainesville was ranked as the sixth largest city in Florida and the 158th largest city in the United States. It is the principal municipality of the Gainesville metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 1,197,313 as of January 1, 2012. The Gainesville metropolitan area is part of the larger Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Combined Statistical Area (CSA) and had an estimated population of 2,358,457 as of July 1, 2012.

Gainesville Florida has a high rate of machinery accidents. In 2016, there were 10 machinery accidents in Gainesville, accounting for 36% of all accidents in the city. This is significantly higher than the national average of 15%. The main reason for this high rate of accidents may be due to the fact that Gainesville has more manufacturing. Many businesses in Gainesville manufacture, which means they are constantly using industrial machines.

Manufacturing Companies

Manufacturing companies in Gainesville Florida include adsf. These companies employ thousands of workers and contribute billions of dollars to the local economy.

Exactech, Inc.
Invivo Corporation
Sivance, LLC
The Crom Corporation
Double Envelope Corporation
Bear Archery, Inc.
Naylor, LLC

Fabco-Air, Inc.
Ridgway Roof Truss Company
Allapattah Industries, Inc.
Axogen Corporation
Theissen Training Systems, Inc.
Carbonxt Inc.
Target Copy of Gainesville, Inc.

Machinery Accidents

Gainesville, FL is a city that is known for its beautiful weather and numerous recreational opportunities. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the city is immune to accidents caused by machinery. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), there have been many machinery accidents in Gainesville over the years. All of these accidents highlight the importance of using properly designed and installed machinery, as well as ensuring that employees are trained on how to use it safely. If you or someone you know has been involved in an accident caused by machinery in Gainesville Florida, contact an experienced lawyer as soon as possible to discuss your rights.

Here are some of the reported accidents:

AccidentDate	Employer	City	State	Description	Injury	Body Part	Event	Injury Source	Other Injury Source
10/11/2021	PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was standing behind a pallet jack. The employee used the throttle to move the pallet jack; it reversed instead of going forward and pinned his left leg to the wall. He suffered a fracture to the lower leg.	Fractures	Lower leg(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident	Pallet jack-powered	Walls
27/10/2021	W.W. Gay Mechanical Contractor, Inc.	Gainesville	Fl	On October 27, 2021, the injured employee was helping another employee to align two pieces of metal pipe 6 inches in diameter in order to prepare the metal for welding. The employee was using a hammer to hit the pipe to get it better aligned when the injured employee's right middle finger was hit by the hammer, resulting in a fingertip amputation without bone loss.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person	Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
01/10/2021	Shoreline Transfer & Shoreline Transfer Express Inc.	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was fueling refrigerated trailers when he felt a pain in his back and left leg and fell. The employee was unable to walk. The employee suffered two slipped discs in their back.	Herniated discs	Lumbar region	Overexertion and bodily reaction	Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
09/09/2021	The Wynwood	Gainesville	Fl	An employee fell off a golf cart and hit his head on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury.	Intracranial injuries	Brain	Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway	Golf cart, personnel transport cart
10/08/2021	Recro Pharma LLC	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was walking down an internal stairway when she fell to the ground, dislocating her shoulder and breaking her leg in two places. She underwent surgery to the leg.	Fractures and dislocations	Upper and lower limb(s)	Other fall to lower level	Stairs, steps-indoors	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
26/07/2021	GFL Environmental	Gainesville	Fl	On July 26, 2021, an employee was on the riding step of a garbage truck picking up garbage on a dirt road. The truck got close to a tree, knocking the employee off the riding step and resulting in bruising on his left thigh that required hospitalization.	Bruises, contusions	Thigh(s)	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.	Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck	Trees
20/07/2021	LaserCraft Technologies Inc	Gainesville	Ga	On July 20, 2021, an employee was using a jig to grind metal rods. As the employee was removing a part from the jig, the jig pinched the employee's gloved, right index fingertip. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Contact with objects and equipment	Nonclassifiable
02/07/2021	Florida Food Service, Inc	Gainesville	Fl	An employee was driving a forklift in the warehouse. While driving out of the cooler, the employee's foot got caught between the forklift and a pole, resulting in a broken foot.	Fractures	Foot (feet)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident	Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered	Structural elements, n.e.c.
26/06/2021	Elite Power Moves, LLC	Gainesville	Fl	On June 26, 2021, an employee was unloading furniture from a truck when he slipped and fell on the truck's ramp, resulting in a fractured ankle that required hospitalization.	Fractures	Ankle(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping	Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility
24/05/2021	Cargill Incorporated	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was operating a cracker mill designed to grind soy beans. The employee was clearing a jam in the machine when their right hand was caught between two cracker rolls (8" blades) resulting in amputation of their pinky, ring, and middle fingers and a partial amputation of their right palm.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Feed grinders, crushers, mixers-agricultural
04/05/2021	Thomas Concrete	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was attaching a front end loader bucket to a machine. He aligned the parts to place a pin, and a bar moved and pinched his left index fingertip. The fingertip was amputated.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment	Vehicle and mobile equipment parts	Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
21/03/2021	Pilgrims Pride Corporation	Gainesville	Ga	An maintenance employee was assisting with rebuilding a machine when the machine's bottom plate dropped down and caught the employee's right ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment	Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized
23/02/2021	Earl W. Colvard, Inc.	Gainesville	Fl	On February 23, 2020, an employee was moving a 570-pound tire onto a pickup truck's lift gate when the tire fell off the lift gate and knocked the employee to the ground. The employee suffered an injury to his right lower muscle and was hospitalized.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Lower extremities	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.	Tires, except bike	Pickup truck
25/01/2021	IFS Coatings Inc.	Gainesville	Tx	An employee was investigating an issue with one of the bag houses. While moving powder away from the flip flop valve (air lock), the air lock opened and the flip flop valve closed and amputated a fingertip.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects	Valves, nozzles
13/01/2021	COTTRELL, INC.	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was adjusting the band in a band saw after repair when the blade amputated their left index finger.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment	Band saws
19/10/2020	Scott Setzer Construction LLC	Gainesville	Fl	On October 19, 2020, a carpenter was ripping a piece of 2 x 4 lumber with a circular saw when the saw kicked back and amputated the employee's left pinky and ring fingers.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker	Saws-powered, except chainsaws
02/10/2020	DAB CONSTUCTORS, INC.	Gainesville	Fl	On October 2, 2020, an employee was struck by a motor grader while shoveling windrow. The employee sustained fractures to the right arm, right foot, and ribs.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in work zone	Graders, scrapers-construction
25/09/2020	The Industrial Company	Gainesville	Tx	An employee was using a push-pull slam wrench to land a base section of a wind tower. The tool struck the employee's abdomen, causing a mid-section hematoma.	Bruises, contusions	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker	Wrenches-nonpowered
21/09/2020	Foundation Food Group	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was cutting poultry using a band saw and amputated the tip of his right thumb.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment	Butchering machinery
21/08/2020	Martin Docks, Inc.	Gainesville	Ga	An employee was tightening bolts on the handrail system of a boat dock under construction. The employee fell from the dock's roof, landed on the construction platform, and then fell to the ground. The employee suffered contusions and lacerations to the head, neck, left arm, and left leg, as well as a wrist fracture that required surgery. The employee was hospitalized.	Fractures	Wrist(s)	Other fall to lower level	Raft, floating dock	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
12/08/2020	Wilson Industries	Gainesville	Mo	An employee was investigating a jam when his left index fingertip was amputated inside a silo.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Machinery
31/07/2020	Wayne Automatic Fire Sprinklers, Inc.	Gainesville	Fl	An employee fell 4 feet off a bakers scaffold and was hospitalized for fractured ribs.	Fractures	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Scaffolds-self-supporting staging	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
20/07/2020	Oelrich Construction, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was cleaning up and sweeping the floor inside the facility when he fainted. The employee was hospitalized.	Loss of consciousness-not heat related	BODY SYSTEMS	Nonclassifiable	Nonclassifiable
15/07/2020	Albert International, USA	Gainesville	Georgia	An employee descended from a forklift to fill a container with a chemical from a tote that was mounted on the forks of a forklift. The chemical tote hit the employee, resulting in injury and hospitalization.	Traumatic injuries and disorders	Nonclassifiable	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part	Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space	Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
07/07/2020	Rent-A-Center	Gainesville	Texas	An employee was loading a box truck. The employee fell off the lift gate, landing about 4 feet below and suffering a broken left arm.	Fractures	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Delivery truck or van	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
20/05/2020	Foundation Food Group	Gainesville	Georgia	An employee was monitoring chicken as it went into an oven. The chicken was getting stuck between two conveyors; when the employee grabbed one of the conveyors to move it, his finger got stuck, and the fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Conveyors-powered
12/05/2020	EMC Framing, LLC.	Gainesville	Florida	The injured employee was setting a truss about 10 feet high on a residential building. He was working with two other employees. The truss was not going into the right position and when one of the employees pushed it, the injured employee, who was grabbing the truss, lost his balance and fell to the floor, fracturing his hip. The employee required surgery.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level	Nonclassifiable	Floor, n.e.c.
05/05/2020	Rush Truck Center	Gainesville	Georgia	A service technician was standing on the frame rail of a truck and torqueing engine cylinder head-bolts using a torque wrench. He fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip and wrist.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level	Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility	Floor, n.e.c.
05/05/2020	Gatorland Kubota	Gainesville	Florida	On May 5, 2020, an employee was measuring a trailer to install a winch when he tripped and hit his head on the truck's bumper. He suffered a bruise on his left side and was hospitalized with a head injury.	Intracranial injuries	Brain	Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces	Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility
15/04/2020	Swamp Heating and Air LLC	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was climbing up a ladder. The ladder slipped from the side of the building and the employee fell to the ground about 10 feet below. He landed on his feet, then tripped over the ladder lying on the ground and fell. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken left ankle.	Fractures	Ankle(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet	Movable ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
02/03/2020	Eskimo Cold Storage	Gainesville	Georgia	An employee was in a truck lane after sealing a truck. A truck backed up and pinned the employee against the building, crushing the employee's legs.	Crushing injuries	Leg(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area	Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility
04/02/2020	Gold Creek Foods, LLC	Gainesville	Georgia	An employee was running the breading machine. He looked into the product entry opening and saw breading had clotted up inside. He was attempting to remove the clot when his right hand contacted a conveyor belt flap inside the machine, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment	Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized
03/02/2020	CAMBRIDGE MANAGEMENT, INC.	Gainesville	Florida	A maintenance employee was in the shop cleaning up for the day when he took a juice container from a tool bucket and ingested it. He realized that it was not his drink and had a strange taste. He became ill and required hospitalization.	Nausea, vomiting- toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect	BODY SYSTEMS	Ingestion of harmful substance	Liquids
20/09/2019	ACH Foam Technologies, Inc.	Gainesville	Georgia	An employee was moving a block of expanded polystyrene foam from a tilt table with a cart. The block started moving toward him, causing him to fall to the ground. He suffered a broken right femur and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.	Fractures	Thigh(s)	Other fall to lower level	Tables, worktables	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
26/08/2019	Jerry Paul Higgins, LTD	Gainesville	Texas	An employee was using a fire hose to flush water from a newly installed water line when the hose whipped. The employee tripped or was knocked off balance to the ground by the whipping hose, dislocating the left elbow.	Dislocation of joints	Elbow(s)	Fall on same level	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces	Hoses
31/07/2019	Basic Energy Services	Gainesville	Texas	An employee was moving hoses on a frac spread. He had the hoses over his shoulder when residual biocide from one of them flowed onto his shoulders and back. He later lost consciousness and was hospitalized to treat dehydration and skin rashes.	Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue	Chemicals and chemical products
11/07/2019	Dahmer Contracting Group of Florida	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was separating a bundle of joists when one of the joists fell on him and hit him in the shoulder. He was hospitalized.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)	Struck by falling object or equipment	Structural elements
21/06/2019	All Florida Electric Company, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee and his coworker were lowering a 10-foot long, 3-inch conduit steel pipe to be installed at the ceiling part of the tunnel when the employee's right pinky finger was caught between the end of the pipe and a fixed ladder located at the west wall of the tunnel. He suffered the amputation of his right pinky fingertip without bone loss. Leather gloves were worn at the time of the incident.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment	Metal pipes, tubing	Ladders-fixed
19/06/2019	Elite Auto Center of Gainesville, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was hooking a front end loader to his tow truck to get it out of a wash pit in a concrete plant. The employee suffered chemical burns to the legs from the 3-foot-deep water the loader was in. He was hospitalized.	Chemical burns and corrosions	Leg(s)	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue	Chemicals and chemical products
22/05/2019	H.B. Fuller Construction Products, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was on a 12-foot A-frame ladder inspecting an air leak on a discharge pipe. As the employee was descending the ladder, he accidentally opened a release valve, which released a powder-like substance onto his face; this caused him to lose balance and fall from the ladder to the ground. He suffered broken ribs.	Fractures	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level	Step ladders	Valves, nozzles
15/05/2019	Hydro, Inc.	Gainesville	Georgia	An employee was pushing a rack when she tripped and fell into the rack, striking her arm on a roller and fracturing her elbow.	Fractures	Elbow(s)	Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.	Floor	Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
10/05/2019	Kirkland Concrete, LLC.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was climbing down a concrete column form and fell. The employee suffered a dislocated shoulder and a laceration.	Dislocation of joints	Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)	Other fall to lower level	Structural elements	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
23/04/2019	Godwin Enterprises of Gainesville, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was installing roofing material about 7 or 8 feet from the edge of the flat roof of a one-story residential house. He stepped on an insulation board and lost his balance, falling 8 feet to the concrete patio below and fracturing his left elbow. He was hospitalized.	Fractures	Elbow(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet	Roofs	Porches, balconies, decks, patios
10/04/2019	OTR WHEEL ENGINEERING, INC.	Gainesville	Georgia	A temporary employee was placing a wheel assembly onto a bead seating machine. When the machine cycled, the cylinder bolts failed allowing the piston, bell housing and wheel assembly to swing out toward the employee's head. The tire struck the employee's face and knocked him backward onto the concrete floor. The employee suffered a loss of consciousness and a laceration to the mouth and the back of the head.	Intracranial injuries	Brain	Struck by dislodged flying object, particle	Tires, inner tubes, wheels	Special process machinery, n.e.c.
11/03/2019	Performance Food Group, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was operating a pallet truck. As he was turning into an aisle from the south dry dock, he struck a guard rail with his right hand, causing the pallet jack to come to a full and complete stop that thrust him forward off the machine. As he fell from the machine, he held onto the throttle. His left foot and leg were then pinned against a rack. He was hospitalized with a crushed right hand, left leg laceration, and fractured fibula.	Fractures	Lower leg(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident	Pallet jack-powered	Racks-garment and other
05/03/2019	Paradigm Management Team, LLC	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was cutting a piece of wood with a table saw. The saw blade cut his left middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment	Table saws
14/02/2019	Gainesville Fence, LLC.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was on a six-foot ladder replacing an aluminum balcony hand rail system and fell onto the concrete bed landing on his hip and breaking his pelvis and possibly his back.	Fractures	Multiple trunk locations	Other fall to lower level	Movable ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
14/01/2019	Performance Food Group, Inc.	Gainesville	Florida	An employee was driving an electric stand-up pallet jack when another pallet jack driver struck him. This caused him to lose control of the pallet jack and to hit a metal railing. His left ankle hit the metal railing, resulting in a laceration and fracture to his left ankle. He was hospitalized.	Fractures	Ankle(s)	Nonroadway collision with other vehicle	Pallet jack-powered	Pallet jack-powered
12/09/2018	Park Meadows Health & Rehabilitation Center	Gainesville	Florida	A nurse was administering medication to a resident when she tripped on a light cord and fell to the floor. She suffered a broken right hip and was hospitalized.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object	Floor	Power cords, electrical cords, extension cords
07/09/2018	UF Health Shands Hospital	Gainesville	Florida	An employee slipped on wet asphalt and fell, landing on and breaking her left knee. She was hospitalized.	Fractures	Knee(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces	Liquids
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