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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

PUBLIX SUPERMARKETS, INC. STORE #00451

Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at PUBLIX SUPERMARKETS, INC. STORE #00451, 3620 Atlanta Hwy, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30606 on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).

An employee was using a two-step step stool to stock product on shelves. The stool collapsed and the employee fell to the ground sustaining a fractured femur.

Hospitalized Thigh(s) Step ladders

PUBLIX SUPERMARKETS, INC. STORE #00451

An employee was exiting a room when she fell and landed on her knee, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and subsequent surgery.

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Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives

An employee was walking around and closing up the office for the day. As he was on a table closing the blinds, the table collapsed, causing the employee to fall. He sustained a left kneecap fracture.

Western Bays Constructors

Employees were demobilizing a microtunneling operation from inside of a 42-foot shaft. They were standing on a 3-foot high pump stand to disconnect the pump when the pump dropped, and the stand gave way. This caused the employees to slide and fall to the ground. The injured employee fell on his left side, landing on an oil can with his co-worker landing on top of him. The injured employee was hospitalized for a rib fracture.

E4A Solutions, LLC

An employee was on a wood platform surrounding a containment wall to work on a transformer. While inspecting the equipment, the wood platform collapsed, causing the employee to fall approximately 4 feet. The employee's shoulder was fractured and required surgery.

Pinnacle Contracting

An employee was standing on a baker's scaffold approximately 3 feet above finished floor to install equipment. While taking measurements, the locking pins came out on one end of the scaffold, causing the scaffold to collapse. The employee fell 3 feet and sustained a left ankle injury.

Banana Republic Factory Store

An employee was on the second step of a 4-foot A-frame ladder. The ladder collapsed and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken left ankle.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

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.