Severe Workplace Injuries in Fitzgerald, Georgia

Oct 6, 2025 · C. Anderson & Associates, LLC Hospitalized

The injured employee was helping to detain an inmate. A security guard slammed the inmate on top of the injured employee. The employee sustained a back/neck injury.

Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing protective services · Neck and back · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Oct 2, 2024 · Mana Nutritive Aid Products Incorporated Hospitalized

An employee was preparing for the start up of equipment. A pressurized system was opened and liquid in the system caused second- and third-degree burns to the employee's right arm.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Arm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1796933

Apr 10, 2024 · TriDelta Systems, LLC Amputation

An employee was holding the ball of an air-actuated ball valve in place. The employee disconnected the air flow to the valve, causing the ball to rotate to the closed position and crush the employee's fingertip. The fingertip was medically amputated.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Professional and technical services

Mar 19, 2024 · Modern Dispersions South, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was grabbing a poly-styrene product with wax as it exited the die head of the extruder. As it came out, a gas bubble hit the die and burst, causing the plastic to spray him between the bottom of this face shield and the top of his jacket. This caused burns to the bottom front part of his neck.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck · Manufacturing

Jun 30, 2023 · Agri-Products, Inc. Amputation

An employee was getting wood out of a shaver box when his foot was caught in the shaver head. Five of the employee's toes on the right foot were amputated.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Toes(s), toenail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1681419

Jul 15, 2022 · American Blanching Company Amputation

An employee's left hand was caught by the butterfly valve inside a bulk line sugar feeder. The machine amputated his index, middle, and ring fingertips at the first knuckle.

Caught in running equipment or machinery · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1609292

Jun 3, 2022 · Windstream Communication, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was on a ladder and the ladder was secured on a communications strand (flexible cable). He reached over to secure his safety harness and the ladder slid a bit causing him to fall about 15 feet to the ground. He sustained multiple injuries to his right leg, ankle, and foot.

Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Multiple lower extremities locations (other) · Information

Mar 22, 2022 · Covered Wagon Trailers, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was blasting parts with aluminum oxide using a blast hood. While blasting, the rubber gasket on the blast hood became loose. The employee attempted to seal the gasket in place with duct tape and continued blasting. The employee suffered erythema and ruptured capillaries.

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Nonclassifiable · Manufacturing

Oct 1, 2021 · Polar Beverages Hospitalized

An employee was standing on a portable ladder and working on a light fixture when he received an electric shock from a secondary power source. The employee fell to the ground and injured their back.

Other fall to lower level · Back, including spine, spinal cord · Manufacturing

Jul 15, 2021 · American Blanching Company Amputation

An employee attempted to remove a waste pan from a rack in the blanching area when the pan tipped and caught her finger between the pan and the rack. The employee's left middle fingertip was amputated.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing

Jan 13, 2021 · American Blanching Company Hospitalized

An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Manufacturing

Jan 8, 2021 · Agri-Products, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was rolling logs. The employee stepped onto a shaver box to straighten a log, and his right foot was caught between the shaver box and the drive chain. The foot and the ankle were broken.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Foot (feet) and ankle(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1511050

Sep 14, 2020 · VLS RECOVERY LLC Hospitalized

An employee fell down stairs and suffered a head injury.

Other fall to lower level · Brain · Manufacturing

Aug 31, 2020 · Watco Mechanical Services, LLC Hospitalized

A forklift rolled backward over an employee's leg, causing fractures to the femur and the lower leg.

Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle · Multiple leg locations (other) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1492206

Jan 29, 2020 · Covered Wagon Trailers, LLC Hospitalized

An employee had stepped out of a scissor lift that was approximately 8 feet high onto a steel beam to retrieve a fan. The employee fell off of the beam and landed on the concrete floor, breaking his right knee and left ankle.

Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Ankle(s) and knee(s) · Manufacturing

Jul 25, 2019 · Agri-Products Inc Amputation

An employee was installing a belt over a pulley on a fan when his left middle finger was caught between the belt and the pulley. He pulled his hand out and tissue was removed from the first joint of his finger.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing

Jun 21, 2019 · Kampco Services of Georgia, Inc. Amputation

A temporary employee was operating a press brake machine to form a piece of aluminum. As the employee engaged the press brake, the ram of the press brake crushed the employee's fingers on both hands. The employee sustained partial amputations to four of his fingers.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1411854

Jun 12, 2019 · Covered Wagon Trailers, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was using a portable grinder. Its wheel lacerated the employee's forearm, and the employee was hospitalized.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Forearm(s) · Manufacturing

Apr 19, 2019 · American Blanching Company Amputation

An employee was retrieving a test sample from an ingredient feeder when her right thumb made contact with the auger screw of the feeder. Her right thumb was caught between the screw and the auger housing, resulting in a digit amputation of the right thumb.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1397635

Oct 26, 2018 · Covered Wagon Trailers, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was passing a platform crossway when it collapsed and he fell about 5.5 feet to the concrete floor, suffering a concussion and fracture to the spine area. The platform did not have guardrails at the time of the incident.

Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet · Head and trunk · Manufacturing

Oct 15, 2018 · American Blanching Company Hospitalized

An employee was manually stuffing a tote liner inside the torn opening of a sack full of peanuts that was positioned on a pallet on the ground when another sack stacked on top of the sack the employee was stuffing fell on and pinned him against the ground. He sustained a right ankle fracture and lumbar (L5) vertebrae fracture.

Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing

Sep 24, 2018 · Protein Plus, LLC Amputation

An employee was cleaning the air lock used for moving peanut flour in the conveying system. The paddles unexpectedly activated and partially amputated their right index and middle fingers.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1349714

Jul 14, 2018 · Agri-Products, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was outside blowing off a concrete pad when he experienced nausea due to dehydration (heat stress), requiring hospitalization.

Exposure to environmental heat · Body systems · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1331750

Jul 17, 2017 · Elixir Door and Metals Co., Inc Amputation

An employee was operating a press brake to bend a piece of steel. After bending the piece of steel, he re-actuated the press brake with the foot pedal while grabbing the part out of the die. The part broke up toward the front/top of the press (ram) and a previously bent flange caught and amputated his left index and ring fingertips above the knuckle.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1252278

Jul 11, 2017 · LIPPERT COMPONENTS, INC. Amputation

An employee was using a brake press to bend parts when his right hand was caught by the press blade, amputating his right thumb tip.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1248405

May 11, 2017 · Agri-Products, Inc. Amputation

An employee noticed that a shaver box was making a strange noise and called a coworker for assistance. After the coworker identified that the noise was being caused by a piece of wood that was hung up in the shaver box, he pressed the stop button to initiate the shutdown process. While the employee was attempting to remove the piece of wood, his foot was on the chain of the shaver box. The chain was still coasting to a stop and pulled the employee's right foot into the drive sprocket. He suffered a hole in the top of his foot, a crushed fourth toe, and a deeply lacerated pinky toe. His right fourth toe had to be surgically amputated.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Toes(s), toenail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1233821

Feb 23, 2017 · Elixir Door and Metals Company Amputation

An employee was running a punch press and amputated their right index finger.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1215354

Aug 12, 2016 · Enviro-Log, Inc. Amputation

An employee was holding a piece of plywood in his right hand by the steel structure of a conveyor. A forklift was returning a dumpster to that area and the forklift struck the plywood pressing the employee's finger between the plywood and the steel structure of a conveyor. The tip of the employee's right ring finger was amputated.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing

Jun 15, 2016 · SHAW INDUSTRIES GROUP, INC. Amputation

An employee was removing excess yarn from a yarn package (a roll of yarn) inside a cabling machine. He held the excess yarn in his right hand, and as he put it back into the machine, the yarn became caught on the pre-seed roller. The roller then pulled the yarn around and partially amputated his fifth digit (pinky finger).

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1157481

May 21, 2016 · Polar Beverage Hospitalized

An employee raised the hoist arm on a conveyor to pull a pallet that had stopped. The hoist arm then fell down and struck the employee, causing contusions and abrasions.

Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld (other) · Nonclassifiable · Manufacturing