Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at HayeCo LLC, 37 Burnt Ridge Road, BLAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA 30512
on — Fractures , affecting the Trunk and other lower extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was inspecting the connection from a stick-built garage to a manufactured building. The employee fell off the walk board to the ground below and sustained a compression fracture to the L3 vertebra and a fractured right ankle.
Hospitalized Trunk and other lower extremities Scaffolds, staging unspecified
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An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
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