Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at XPO Logistics Supply Chain, Inc., 747 Douglas Hill Road, LITHIA SPRINGS, GEORGIA 30122
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
At about 9:40 a.m. on August 16, 2019, a temporary employee was loading a spool of shrink-wrap on a shrink-wrap machine using an electric powered hoist. The hoist dropped the load onto the employee's finger while adjusting a roller tab that had to be in the vertical position for the roll to set in place. The employee suffered the amputation of the left middle fingertip.
On March 31, 2021, an employee was emptying a trash hopper when his finger was crushed in the hopper resulting in medical amputation of the finger above the knuckle.
An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.
An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.
An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.
An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.
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