Severe Workplace Injuries in Waycross, Georgia
Employers in Waycross reported 17 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through September 2025: 13 workers hospitalized and 4 amputations (24% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 2 of them.
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OSHA inspections in Waycross since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 34 inspections at Waycross workplaces, and 18 of them (53%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 40 serious, 0 willful and 2 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $110,571.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| The James Company, Inc. (complaint, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $4,703 |
| Circle K Stores Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $9,795 |
| Express Wash Operations LLC (monitoring, details) | 1 | $518 |
| The James Company, Inc. (complaint, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $2,765 |
| The James Company, Inc. (complaint, details) | 10 (7 serious+) | $15,937 |
| Baily International, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $7,232 |
| Cmh Homes, Inc. (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $8,937 |
| Ruben Palomares (referral, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $3,326 |
| Wmt Housing, LLC (complaint, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $10,526 |
| Georgia Biomass, LLC. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $2,567 |
| Samuel Sellers (planned, details) | 5 (5 serious+) | $6,270 |
| Harper & Company Builders, Inc. (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $3,634 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 17 newest severe injury reports from Waycross employers, as OSHA published them.
Sep 16, 2025 · GATX Corporation Hospitalized
An employee was sampling a railcar in a storage yard. After sampling the railcar, the employee was climbing down the railcar ladder when he fell off the top step of the ladder to the ground, resulting in fractures to six ribs, his right arm, and two vertebrae.
Other fall to lower level · Trunk and other upper extremities · Transportation and warehousing
Feb 20, 2024 · CMH Manufacturing Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was stapling oriented strand board (OSB) onto a wall with a pneumatic staple gun when a 2-inch staple punctured his left knee. The employee required hospitalization and surgery to remove the staple.
Struck by discharged object or substance · Knee(s) · Manufacturing
Nov 1, 2023 · CAROLINA SKIFF LLC Amputation
An employee was pushing a door against the wind when the wind stopped. The door shut abruptly on the employee's right ring fingertip, amputating it.
Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 14, 2023 · Wellpath LLC Hospitalized
An employee plugged a golf cart in to charge then tripped over the cord and fell to the ground resulting in a right hip fracture.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Hip(s) · Health care and social assistance
Feb 22, 2021 · GATX Corporation Hospitalized
An employee was walking by a railcar commodity offloading area. A 2-inch rubber hose funneling phenol into a 55-gallon drum became dislodged from the drum and sprayed liquid phenol onto the employee. He was hospitalized, having suffered second-degree chemical burns to the back of his neck and first-degree chemical burns to his face and arms.
Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue · Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Transportation and warehousing
Feb 16, 2021 · WMT Housing, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was using a nail gun to install molding in a closet. The nail gun shot a 1 1/2-inch brad nail into the employee's chest.
Struck by discharged object or substance · Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Manufacturing
Feb 25, 2020 · Republic Services of Georgia, Limited Partnership (Delaware) Hospitalized
An employee opened the rear door of an open top refuse container and was struck by a roll of plastic sheeting that weighed approximately 300 pounds. As the roll struck him, the employee fell backwards and struck the back of his head on a concrete pad. Another roll of plastic sheeting dislodged from the container and landed on top of his legs. The employee sustained fractures to his right ankle and pelvis, as well as a laceration to back of his head.
Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Multiple body parts (other) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Feb 21, 2020 · Georgia Biomass, LLC Amputation
An employee was attempting to clear a pellet clog in a conveyor using a wrench when the hand wrench contacted the moving conveyor chain, causing the wrench to move forward and resulting in the employee's right index finger being pinched between the wrench and the conveyor housing. The employee sustained an amputation of the distal right index fingertip.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fingertip(s) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1485229
Jul 2, 2019 · W.J. Sapp & Son, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was joining rail links when a bolt (1" diameter X 6" long) failed to line up. The employee struck the bolt with a hammer and it jumped out, striking the employee's leg. The employee sustained a left lower leg fracture and was hospitalized.
Struck by dislodged flying object, particle · Lower leg(s) · Construction
Feb 4, 2019 · Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. Amputation
An employee was using the dock ramp at the facility where he was delivering product when drinks fell under the ramp. When the employee attempted to retrieve them, the ramp moved and pinched his finger causing a fingertip amputation.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Dec 20, 2018 · Jerry J's, Inc. Amputation
An employee was cutting lettuce with a manually operated food slicer. His right thumb contacted the slicer's blades, causing a partial amputation to the tip of the thumb.
Injured by handheld object or equipment (other) · Fingertip(s) · Hotels and restaurants
Nov 9, 2018 · DBW, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was preparing to brew tea on a dual tea maker/dispenser machine. A customer came up to get some tea from the other dispenser. When the customer pulled on the handle, the housing was pulled too, causing the hot water going into the filter to spill onto and burn the employee's right arm and hand.
Contact with hot objects or substances · Hand(s) and arm(s) · Hotels and restaurants
Oct 26, 2018 · GATX Locomotive Group, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning a tanker car using a grit-blast hose and stretched it out to roll it up. The hose trigger button was then hit and pressurized grit was released, striking him in the neck. He was hospitalized with a laceration and contusions, requiring surgery.
Struck by discharged object or substance · Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Transportation and warehousing
May 4, 2018 · WMT Housing, LLC Hospitalized
A piece of metal fell off of a roof that was being worked on and struck an employee on his left leg, causing a laceration between his ankle and his calf.
Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Lower leg(s) · Manufacturing
May 30, 2017 · CLAYTON HOMES, INC. Hospitalized
An employee was using a texture gun to spray ceiling texture when the spray nozzle became clogged. As the employee was attempting to unclog the spray nozzle, it injected ceiling texture into the employee's left ring and middle fingers, requiring surgery and hospitalization.
Struck by discharged object or substance · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing
Feb 3, 2017 · SCOTBILT HOMES, INC. Hospitalized
While cutting molding with a saw, an employee suffered a cut to the right interior forearm, requiring hospitalization. The saw was unguarded at the time.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Forearm(s) · Construction
Nov 18, 2015 · Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee stepped on a piece of fruit, slipped and fell fracturing a hip.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Hip(s) · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1109592
After a workplace injury in Georgia
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Personal injury lawyers in Waycross
Lawbamba lists 6 personal injury lawyers with an office in Waycross, Georgia, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 4 come first in that listing (how the order is set).
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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