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

Tarkett

Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Tarkett, 1000 Vista Drive, DALTON, GEORGIA 30721 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the forearm(s).

An employee was performing a screen change on an extruder and was burned on the right forearm by molten polyvinyl butyral (PVB) after sliding the door open.

Hospitalized Forearm(s) Resins

OQ Chemicals

An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

Husbe Zoaq

An employee was straining hot water from a pot of rice when the water splashed onto them, resulting in burns to their chest, arms, shoulder, and back.

The Cumberland Rest Inc. dba Trinity Terrace

An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.

Mueller & Wilson Inc

An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.

Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC

An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.

CFL USA, LLC

A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

CFL USA, LLC

An employee was adjusting the height of an ultraviolet (UV) lamp. She was electrocuted by the UV machine. She sustained burns on her left hand and an entry wound on the right forearm. The employee was hospitalized.

Shaw Industries, Inc.

On August 14, 2025, an employee was rebuilding a tile-cutting die when their right wrist contacted the cutting blade, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization.

Appalachian Wood Products, Inc.

An employee was removing a jammed piece of scrap wood from the end of a machine saw when the wood pulled their right hand into the saw blade, resulting in an index finger amputation below the second knuckle.

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.