Severe Workplace Injuries in Savannah, Georgia

Nov 3, 2025 · Seres Engineering & Services LLC Hospitalized

An employee was unloading a locker from the back of a truck. He fell from the rear of the truck's lift gate and was hospitalized with fractures to their skull and scapula and a brain injury.

Other fall to lower level · Brain · Professional and technical services

Oct 13, 2025 · Suncoast Resources, LLC Hospitalized

An employee fell down the stairs, resulting in hospitalization for a fractured leg and shoulder injury.

Other fall to lower level · Leg(s) · Wholesale trade

Sep 30, 2025 · The Coastal Group, Inc. Hospitalized

The injured employee was operating a reach truck and stopped at an intersection within a warehouse. After a brief a conversation, another employee's reach truck accelerated unexpectedly and struck the injured employee's stationary truck crushing his foot. He sustained fractures to his left foot and toes requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle · Foot (feet) and toe(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Jul 22, 2025 · The L.C. Whitford Co. Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was moving lumber around a job site when he experienced symptoms of heat exhaustion and called an ambulance. He was hospitalized and received treatment for heat exhaustion.

Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Body systems · Construction · OSHA inspection 1840809

Jun 24, 2025 · White Cap Holding (SC), LLC Amputation

An employee was loading a pallet of water onto the back of his truck when the wire grate sideboard fell off. After exiting his forklift to pick up the fallen sideboard, he stood next to the truck, awaiting the loading of the second pallet. The operator of the second forklift positioned the pallet on the flatbed and began to reverse out. As the forks exited the pallet, they caught the mesh sideboard grate that the employee had gathered and placed next to it, causing the mesh sideboard grate to pull back and catch the employee's fingers inside it. The employee suffered lacerations, including to the left little finger, and required amputation of the little finger down to the knuckle of the hand.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area · Other finger(s) (other) · Retail

May 16, 2025 · Savannah Health Services, LLC Amputation

An employee was helping to move a refrigerator into a room when their finger was pinched between the refrigerator and the door jamb. The employee sustained an amputation of their right ring fingertip.

Injured by object handled by person (other) · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Health care and social assistance

May 9, 2025 · Spohn Global Enterprises LLC Hospitalized

An employee drove an electric pallet jack (EPJ) into a trailer. As he exited the EPJ, his foot became caught between the EPJ and the trailer wall. The employee sustained a fractured left foot.

Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery · Foot (feet), toe(s) · Transportation and warehousing

May 3, 2025 · The Kroger Company Amputation

An employee was adjusting a receiving dock plate when his right little finger was caught in a hinge and the fingertip was amputated.

Contact incidents · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Retail

Apr 28, 2025 · United States Sugar Savannah Refinery, LLC Amputation

While explaining to a co-worker how to install a new gate on the palletizer machine, an employee's left thumb tip was amputated by the machine's piston.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Mar 17, 2025 · ABM Industries Incorporated Hospitalized

An employee was inspecting an air conditioning unit in the electrical room when they lost balance and fell from a ladder to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a head injury and was hospitalized.

Other fall to lower level · Head · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Feb 14, 2025 · Gleaman & Sons Custom Woodworks Hospitalized

An employee was working on a 10-foot ladder when they fell, resulting in a skull fracture and hospitalization.

Other fall to lower level · Skull · Manufacturing

Jan 25, 2025 · Elevated Facility Services Hospitalized

An employee was working on a dumbwaiter that was anchored by a bar drilled into the wall. The anchor failed and the dumbwaiter fell with him on it. The employee sustained a dislocated right shoulder and a compound fracture to the right ankle.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Upper and lower extremities (other) · Manufacturing

Dec 14, 2024 · Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was walking through the stock room when they tripped over a pallet and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left hip.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Hip joint(s) · Retail

Nov 27, 2024 · JC & MC, LLC Hospitalized

Two employees were working in a boom lift painting beams near a catwalk. The lift operator was raising the boom to position it between the beams. The boom did not stop and continued to rise, causing the injured employee to be caught between the beams and the rail of the lift basket. The injured employee suffered several broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) · Multiple trunk locations · Construction · OSHA inspection 1791865

Nov 22, 2024 · Odyssey HealthCare of Savannah, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was unpacking supplies from a vehicle when they were struck by a passing car. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to multiple ribs and their left tibia and fibula.

Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle location · Trunk and other lower extremities · Health care and social assistance

Oct 12, 2024 · BASF Corporation - Savannah Hospitalized

Employees were making a grade change to a spray dryer system. Water pressure blew a strainer lid off as one employee was trying to open it; it struck the employee's face, causing fractures to their face and forehead on the left side as well as a cut above the left eye.

Struck by discharged object or substance · Other multiple ear(s), facial locations · Manufacturing

Oct 6, 2024 · GAF Amputation

An employee was operating a forklift and looking backward while driving in reverse when their hand/fingers were caught between an elevated platform and the forklift. The employee sustained amputations of the right middle and ring fingertips below the fingernail.

Collision with stationary object, nonroadway · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Sep 28, 2024 · MacAljon/SCL, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was on a roof repairing a skylight when they fell through the skylight to the concrete floor. The employee sustained fractures to both legs, both elbows, a shoulder, a cheekbone, and their nose.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 30 feet · Head and extremities · Construction · OSHA inspection 1778385

Sep 6, 2024 · POET Terminal - Savannah, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was taking down a chain-link gate in the yard. The gate was off its rollers to be removed when it fell on them, resulting in a fractured right hip.

Struck by falling object · Hip joint(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Aug 14, 2024 · Frito-Lay, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was walking under the automatic door to the maintenance garage when the cable broke and the door struck him, resulting in fractures to his T10 and T11 vertebrae.

Struck by dislodged or detached object(s) · Back thoracic region · Manufacturing

Aug 5, 2024 · Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Amputation

On August 5, 2024, an employee was checking to see if a fan motor on an air pump was running. His right middle finger was drawn into the fan blade, which amputated the fingertip.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Jul 31, 2024 · OT International II, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was crouched down while checking wires in a receptacle box. He tried to turn to his right and his left knee struck the first sheet of tile in a stack of 15-20 sheets of 4' x 8' stone tile that was leaned against the wall. Most of the stack then fell onto the employee's legs. The employee's right fibula and tibia were fractured and required surgery.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Lower leg(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1768459

Jun 20, 2024 · SSA Atlantic, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was unloading a ship when he was struck by a forklift, resulting in a broken right ankle.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Ankle(s) · Transportation and warehousing

May 8, 2024 · Capitol Materials Coastal, Inc. Hospitalized

The injured employee was performing maintenance work on a crane using mobile stairs. Another employee was retracting the extensions when the fork assembly caught the stairs and caused them to tip over. The injured employee jumped from the stairs and landed on his feet on the floor, fracturing his right foot.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Foot (feet), toe(s) · Construction

Apr 25, 2024 · United Rentals, Inc Hospitalized

An employee was removing a foam-filled tire from a forklift for service when the tire fell and struck them in the right leg, fracturing it.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Leg(s) · Real estate and rental · OSHA inspection 1745001

Apr 25, 2024 · Peek Pavement Marking LLC Hospitalized

Employees were performing roadway painting activities when three employees were struck by a motor vehicle. One employee was hospitalized with a concussion, scratches, and bruising.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in road work zone · Brain · Construction · OSHA inspection 1745268

Oct 5, 2023 · Roger Wood Foods, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was operating a vacuum seal machine and placing labels on packages. The employee's right ring and little fingers were lacerated by the seal tooling mechanism.

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

Sep 16, 2023 · Sunstates Security LLC Amputation

An employee was holding the door for contractors who were leaving the property when his little finger was caught in the door. Half an inch of the employee's left little finger was amputated.

Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Sep 6, 2023 · Yates-Astro, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was performing pest control activities at a private residence. The employee reached into bushes next to the house and was bitten by a venomous snake.

Stings and venomous bites · Body systems · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Sep 5, 2023 · UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. Hospitalized

An employee was walking to their bay to perform loading and unloading operations. A jammed package came over the side barrier of the overhead belt system. The 18-pound package fell onto the employee from the height of the rafters causing a fractured neck and contusions to the head.

Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Transportation and warehousing