Covington, GA ·
OSHA Injury Report: USA GA - Covington GDC
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at USA GA - Covington GDC in 14201 Lochridge Boulevard, Covington, GA 30014 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was forklift Driver in general warehousing and storage.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- USA GA - Covington GDC
- Parent company
- Becton Dickinson
- Street
- 14201 Lochridge Boulevard
- City
- Covington
- State
- GA
- ZIP
- 30014
- On-site location
- Driving a Stock Picker in the section 1 aisle 6.
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 12
Before the incident
Associate was driving his forklift and picking products from a rack.
What happened
The associate was driving a cherry picker at [REDACTED]. The associate was located at the beginning of the [REDACTED] with the forklift moving. The associate was looking at the control panel trying to connect the equipment to the guide wire ([REDACTED] is a 12feet wide [REDACTED] and there is not guide wire available) but he did not realize the cherry picker was still moving. The cherry picker hit a pallet with some boxes on jarring the associate’s wrist on the controls.
Injury or illness
Wrist Strain.
Object or substance involved
Forklift control panel.
Summary line
The associate was driving in the aisle 6 he was trying to connect to wire guide didn 't pay attention and hit the rack his wrist hit the forklift controls.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Forklift Driver
- SOC code
- 53-7051: Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
- NAICS code
- 493110: General warehousing and storage
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 334
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 632,679
- EIN
- 220760120
- Establishment ID
- 994435
- Employer case #
- 2
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 12:20
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-28
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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