Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at EXEL INC., 1555 OAKLEY INDUSTRIAL BLVD, FAIRBURN, GEORGIA 30213
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
On August 19, 2022, an employee was using a forklift when his shoelace became caught in racking. While trying to free his shoelace from the racking, his foot became caught between the equipment and the rack's bottom protection barrier. The employee sustained tissue damage to his foot, which required surgery to repair.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
An employee used an attached rope to pull a door down and close it, then placed his foot on the foot bar to lock it. The rope looped around his foot. When he began to walk away, he tripped and was swung around, causing his left foot to come out from beneath him. He fell onto his right hip and broke it. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was exiting a trailer after putting a label on a skid inside the trailer. The trailer began pulling away and the employee fell to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their ribs on the right side, right kneecap, and a left toe.
The injured employee was sitting in a parked forklift while another forklift was moving two metal tire racks. The top rack was empty and the bottom rack contained tires. As the racks were being lowered to the ground, they fell and the top rack struck the injured employee. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations and a fracture to the left foot, and they required surgery.
An employee was driving a stand-up counterbalance forklift down an aisle in a warehouse. The forklift abruptly turned; the employee's leg moved and the dead man switch activated, throwing the employee out of the forklift. Their right leg was crushed between the material-handling equipment and a racking system, and it was amputated above the knee.
An employee was attending a training course at the corporate office. At the end of the course, the group went outside to a patio to take a photo. The employee slipped off the patio stairs and fell to the grass-covered ground at the same level. He was hospitalized with a broken femur and broken hip.
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On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.
An employee was operating an extruder and performing a spool swap over from the right spindle to the left spindle. After rewiring the new spool, the employee's clothing got caught in the turning shaft when the left spindle started back up. The employee's left arm was pulled into the machine, resulting in a fractured humerus and lacerations to her triceps. She was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was resetting a warehouse racking system utilizing an order picker. They fell approximately 5 feet from the order picker to the concrete floor and sustained fractured ribs.
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.
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.
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