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OSHA Injury Report: Southern

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Southern in Birmingham, AL 35324 resulted in days away from work. Employee was stockkeeper in construction Machinery Manufacturing.

Establishment
Southern
Parent company
Altec Industries
Street
1730 Vanderbilt Rd.
City
Birmingham
State
AL
ZIP
35324
On-site location
Material rack near laser 2
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
2
Days restricted or transferred
2

Placing wooden blocks underneath material to be able to pick up material bundle and load the laser

The associate lifted the material bundle with a forklift slightly in order to place the wooden block underneath the material to pace the material up in order to grab the desired bundle to move to the laser. While placing the blocks in the bundle slipped off of the forks while the tip of her finger was on top of the the wooden block and the bundle crushed the tip of her finger.

Diagnosis of the injury at the ER was a Crushing injury of finger of right hand traumatic amputation of the tip of the right middle finger

The bundle of material and the wooden block

Crushing Hand Right Side Parts Materials: Metal materials nonstructural Metal Object

Job description
Stockkeeper
SOC code
53-7065 — Stockers and Order Fillers
NAICS code
333120 — Construction Machinery Manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
419
Total hours worked
914167
EIN
630362926
Establishment ID
325591
Employer case #
2023-052
Date of incident
Shift started
11:00:00.000
Time of incident
0:30:00.000
Submitted
08FEB24:14:42:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.