Genuine Parts Company

An employee was walking in the parking lot when he slipped on a patch of black ice and fell backward. The employee struck his head and neck, resulting in a T1 vertebra fracture and an intracranial hemorrhage.

An employee was helping place a pallet jack on a storage trailer. The pallet jack slipped, causing the employee to fall off the trailer and suffer a broken ankle.

While walking toward a customer to deliver product, an employee tripped on a concrete step and fell. The employee's right knee struck the ground, and the employee suffered a broken patella.

An employee tripped over a pallet, falling on his left side and suffering a hip/femur fracture. He was hospitalized, needing surgery.

An employee was putting freight away and was cutting open zip ties with a knife. He missed the package and the knife hit his arm, resulting in a large laceration to his left wrist. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

An employee was descending a ladder when their foot caught on the edge of the bottom step. The employee fell and struck the floor, landing on their left hip and suffering a hip fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee had loaded parts into his van and was pulling an empty utility cart back into the store. The wheels of the cart got caught in the doorway. When the employee pulled it through, the cart fell over onto him and he fell to the floor, landing on his right hip. The employee's hip was fractured.

An employee was found on the floor within the enclosure of a laser machine. The employee was adjusting a sheet of metal on the machine while carrying a remote control, which actuated the machine, moving the carriage and causing the employee to be caught between the carriage and the machine table. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right shoulder and left ankle, and lacerations on their legs and ankles.

An employee was wrapping pallets using a plastic wrap dispenser when he felt a pop in his back along with a burning and stabbing sensation. The employee sustained the herniation of discs L4 and L5.

An employee was working at the end of a ramp when a powered industrial truck rolled down the ramp and broke the employee's foot.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.