Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2018-06-21 | Antioch | Illinois | Panacea Products Corporation | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was standing on a 41-inch-high railing, shifting scrap metal inside an 8-foot container. He fell from the railing to the concrete below, breaking his pelvis, clavicle, and four ribs and suffering a contusion on the back of the head. | |||||
2018-04-03 | Antioch | Illinois | Union Corrugating Company | Head | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was unloading steel roofing panels at a construction site using a forklift with a spreader bar. The mast was fully extended when the forklift tipped forward. The employee's head struck the steel cage, suffering lacerations and a possible orbital fracture. | |||||
2016-08-04 | Antioch | Illinois | WFF FACILITY SERVICES | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was looking for a vacuum when he slipped and fell on some water on the floor from a leaking ice cooler. He was hospitalized with a left leg injury. | |||||
2016-04-20 | Antioch | Illinois | Ash Pallet Management, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was removing a piece of jammed wood from the chop saw when his right-hand pinky finger was amputated by the blade. | |||||
2015-07-25 | Antioch | Illinois | WILLIAM T. CONNELLY INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was wearing gloves and had a ring on his left ring finger. As he descended the ladder of a JLG scissor lift, his finger got caught in the deck of the lift. His finger was amputated. | |||||
2015-04-07 | Antioch | Illinois | Janis Plastics, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee operating a CNC routing machine sustained lacerations and experienced great blood loss after manually holding the part being cut by machine down with his hand. | |||||
2015-04-02 | Antioch | Illinois | Janis Plastics, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee running a CNC routing machine tried to manually push down a part that he thought was loose while the machine was cutting it. He got stuck between the moving arm where the router cuts and a stationary arch. He was pinched, fracturing two left ribs and his shoulder. |