COLQUITT, GEORGIA—
Birdsong Corporation
Nonroadway noncollision jack-knifed or ran off driving surface · Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Birdsong Corporation, 709 E Pine Street, COLQUITT, GEORGIA 39837 on — Fractures and surface, flesh wounds , affecting the Head and trunk.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a forklift on a mobile ramp when the ramp moved and the forklift fell about three feet to the ground causing a fractured rib and vertebrae and a face laceration.
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An employee was retrieving a tote bag of peanuts weighing approximately 1.1 tons from a higher level with a forklift when the tote tilted over and became unstable. He got out of the forklift to inspect it when the tote fell over onto his leg, fracturing it.
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A 2,200-pound bulk bag of peanuts had fallen to a warehouse floor and come open. Employees were cleaning up when another bulk bag fell onto one of them, covering his entire body except for his head and feet. He suffered a broken femur and humerus, as well as head lacerations. He was hospitalized.
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