105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA—

Valentine Enterprise, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Cuts, lacerations

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Valentine Enterprise, Inc., 1291 Progress Center Ave., LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30043 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

Final narrative

An employee was loading bags of powdered mixture into a sifter. While he was trying to retrieve a fallen box cutter from the hopper, the rotating blade in the hopper severely cut fingers on his right hand.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified

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