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

Diamond foods

Shooting by other person-unintentional · Gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Diamond foods, 971 Hambrick Lane, BACONTON, GEORGIA 31716 on — Gunshot wounds, affecting the knee(s).

Two employees were handling a gun when the injured employee was shot in the knee.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Co-worker

Midsouth Paving, Inc.

An employee sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen when a firearm was discharged by a co-worker.

Dairy Queen

On April 1, 2023, at 4:04 PM, two employees were talking as one employee stowed his belongings in the prep room. One employee began showing the injured employee his gun when it fired. The injured employee was shot in the arm and required hospitalization and surgery.

Performance Alloys

An employee was showing his firearm when it went off. Another employee was shot in the hip.

Dept of Homeland Security

A law enforcement employee was participating in a scenario-based demonstration by a co-worker when the co-worker's firearm accidentally discharged. A 9-milimeter bullet struck the employee in the upper right thigh, resulting in a wound that required hospitalization.

PepsiCo Frito-Lay Region Office

A delivery driver was crossing the street to return to their truck when the employee was shot in the hip by a drive by shooter. The employee sustained a pelvic fracture.

Chase Farms

An employee was working in the pecan orchard. He went to cross a cement irrigation ditch via a wooden plank that was extended across the ditch. The wooden plank snapped in two, and the employee fell approximately 2 feet, 8 inches into the irrigation ditch. The employee was hospitalized with two fractures to his lower left leg.

BROOKS TROPICALS, LLC

An employee was engaged in landscaping activities and was stung by about 300 bees. The employee was hospitalized with pain and swelling over their face, neck, back, arms, and hands.

D. D. Lawn & Tree Services LLC

An employee was performing line clearing operations. The employee cut a tree limb that moved unexpectedly and he tried to grab it. The back of his hand was lacerated by the chainsaw.

National Pecan Shelling Operations, LLC

An employee was feeding a hopper when her right middle finger was caught in the auger, resulting in a middle finger amputation.

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.