Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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Metromont

Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire · Second degree heat (thermal) burns

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Metromont, 200 Metromont road , HIRAM, GEORGIA 30141 on — Second degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

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An employee was attempting to light a handheld propane torch when an explosion occurred. The employee received second degree burns to the face, hand, and other body parts. A second employee also suffered injuries.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Welding, cutting, and blow torches

Metromont

An employee was applying trowel finish to double tees. As the employee started the trowel, he discovered it was set to full throttle. He struggled to get the trowel machine under control. The trowel blade contacted a portion of the double tee side rail. The blade stopped, but the trowel continued to rotate, throwing the employee off of the form and onto the ground on his right side. The employee was then struck by the trowel machine control bar.

Metromont

An employee was struck by a front-end loader while he was removing a chain from a dumpster. He was crushed from the waist down.

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Heart of Texas Tire, LLC

An employee was using an air compressor on a multi-wheel tire when the flange and the tire burst, causing the wheel's lock ring to strike the employee in the face. He sustained a laceration and facial fractures.

Frazer & Jones, LLC

An employee was changing the connection to a compressed nitrogen tank when the system failed and exploded. One employee suffered a concussion and was hospitalized. The other employee sustained soft tissue injuries that did not require hospitalization.

Walmart Supercenter

An employee was putting air in a tire that was mounted on a customer's vehicle when the tire exploded, resulting in a left arm fracture that required hospitalization.

Shaner Operating Corporation

An employee was working in a kitchen when a spray can of oil exploded. Hot oil splashed onto the employee, burning their face and arms.

Frank Sharum Landscape Design Inc.

On October 24, 2023, at 12:00 PM, an employee was visually checking a gauge on the "U" controller when a pressure tank exploded. The employee was hospitalized with multiple facial fractures and required surgery.

Concrete Industries Nebraska City

An employee was stacking concrete blocks for a concrete bunker. As a block was swinging into place, the employee's left leg was pinched between two blocks, resulting in injuries to his left heel and lower leg.

Enterprise Precast Concrete

An employee was patching precast concrete. He fell from a concrete wall support to the ground due to wind. He was hospitalized with fractures to his left ankle and right knee.

Mid-Hudson Concrete Products, Inc.

An employee was opening a precast concrete form and rolled his ankle. The employee required surgery on his ankle.

Quikrete

A driver slipped and fell to the ground while exiting his truck. He sustained a lacerated spleen.

Napco Precast, LLC

An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when the wood got jammed. While clearing the jam, the wood moved forward and his left index and middle fingertips were amputated.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.