| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-03 | Bedford Park | Il | M. D. Metals, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was adjusting the hook and scale on an overhead crane when their thumb was crushed. | |||||
| 2021-07-20 | Bedford Park | Il | Chicago Pallet Service, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was using a water hose to cool down a forklift's radiator. The radiator discharged steam and hot radiator fluid onto the employee, who was burned. | |||||
| 2021-07-03 | Bedford Park | Il | Power Stop, LLC | Leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| On July 3, 2021, at approximately 2:00 p.m., an employee parked a forklift next to another forklift. While exiting the forklift, the controls engaged causing the forklift to move and crush the employee's left leg between the two forklifts resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-03-15 | Bedford Park | Il | Power Stop, LLC | Multiple head locations | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was using a ladder to access a racking system. He fell, suffering injuries to the head and face. | |||||
| 2021-03-15 | Bedford Park | Il | Mauser Packaging Solutions - Industrial Products | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at a roll former, feeding a coil of steel through the rollers to form a ring. The steel became misaligned at the second of three forming rollers. The employee was aligning the piece when the roller caught his right glove and drew in his index, middle, and ring fingers. He suffered a fracture to the index finger and crushing injuries to the middle and ring fingertips, with amputations at the fingertips. The machine was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2021-01-19 | Bedford Park | Il | United States Postal Service | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On January 19, 2021, an employee fell from a ladder. The employee's right hand fell into the moving gear of a machine, resulting in the amputation of the ring and little fingers. | |||||
| 2020-10-09 | Bedford Park | Il | METAL-MATIC, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| On October 9, 2020, a furnace operator was unjamming a furnace and was overcome by carbon monoxide. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-05-20 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Raymundos Food Group, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a filler machine when her left index finger was punctured by a screw/pin on the machine's moving piston. | |||||
| 2020-05-08 | Bedford Park | Illinois | U.S. Postal Service | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was trying to lift a dock plate into place with another employee when the employee lost balance and fell backward onto the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right hip requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2020-01-14 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Scaletta Moloney Armoring Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a jack to lift a vehicle fuel tank. The air-powered jack pinched the employee's fingers when activated, fracturing the left index and middle fingers and injuring the left index extensor tendon. | |||||
| 2019-09-17 | Bedford Park | Illinois | UPS | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee fell, suffering an injury to the left hip. | |||||
| 2019-09-09 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Assemblers Inc. | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was re-stacking boxes that had fallen. A double-stack of pallets that was behind the employee fell and landed on the employee resulting in a fractured right ankle. | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Cintas | Lower leg(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| An employee was pushing a cart full of garments through a doorway. The employee then transitioned to the front of the cart to continue pulling it. As the walkway began to slope downwards, the cart caught the employee’s leg against a pallet of quick-dry cement. The employee was hospitalized with a broken tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2019-08-16 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Dhaliwal Labs Illinois, LLC dba Dhaliwal Labs North, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was trying to catch product coming off a conveyor when his fingers were caught between the conveyor and a metal bar under it. His left index finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-05-03 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Alliance Steel Corporation | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Rubbed or abraded by friction or pressure, n.e.c. |
| On May 3, 2019, a forklift was moving pallets when the forks struck and broke a pipe. The injured employee went to examine the broken pipe when a blast of air struck the employee causing a surface burn to their right arm and hand. | |||||
| 2019-02-20 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Dhaliwal Labs North, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using a pallet wrapping machine to wrap product on a pallet. He had turned the machine off and was at the bottom with the wrap when the pallet shifted and knocked him off balance. His thumb was pinched between the pallet and the machine; the tip was amputated to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2019-02-14 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Pactiv LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were mounting a metal rod on a workbench mounted vice. The metal rod slipped from the vice and struck the tip of one employee's right ring finger causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-02-13 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Metal Matic Inc. Steel Tubing | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on the mill cut off press and lifted a door flap to add oil to the press. The press cycled and crushed the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2019-02-06 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Commercial Forged Products | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| When a machine cycled, the tongs inside it whiplashed and struck an employee on the right side, by the ribcage. | |||||
| 2019-02-05 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Alliance Steel Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was pushing steel scrap with one hand into a container when a finger was pinched between a piece of scrap metal and the edge of a metal bar railing amputating the fingertip. The employee was wearing gloves at the time. | |||||
| 2019-01-24 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Alliance Steel Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was loading sheet steel on the wood with the crane when his finger was caught and crushed between the wood and the steel. | |||||
| 2018-09-13 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Central Lift Maintenance Group | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was securing a trunnion to a gantry crane with bolts. A bolt slipped while he was tightening it, and his fingers were crushed between the wheel assembly and the blade of a forklift. The tip of his left index finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Starcon International, Inc. | Face | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was on an 8-foot scaffold conducting a repair activity on a vessel when a hot substance shot from an opening in the vessel, striking the employee's face and causing second degree burns. The employee also fell off the scaffold and suffered a swollen right wrist. | |||||
| 2018-08-14 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Service Metal Works, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a press brake when the die amputated four of the employee's fingertips. Pull-back devices were in stalled, but not in use. | |||||
| 2018-06-21 | Bedford Park | Illinois | ABF Freight System, Inc. | Lumbar region | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employer suffered a lower back injury while lifting a trailer door, and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-04-19 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Midway Windows and Doors Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee opened the access door of a saw and was showing maintenance an issue with the equipment when the saw lacerated the employee's right-hand index finger and thumb. The saw was running at the time. | |||||
| 2018-02-05 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Outsources Fleet | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was changing the bogie/axle on a trailer. The employee was underneath the bogie of the trailer when the jack holding the trailer up slipped away, allowing the bogie to fall and strike the employee. The employee suffered a broken rib and two bruised ribs. | |||||
| 2018-01-29 | Bedford Park | Illinois | USPS | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| On January 29, 2018, an employee was cleaning up garbage when he tripped over a garbage can and bumped his head on the floor. | |||||
| 2017-09-01 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Sterling Spring, L.L.C | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On September 1, 2017, at approximately 2:01 p.m., an employee was operating a press machine when the employee's fingertip was caught and amputated in the machine. | |||||
| 2017-08-08 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Pactiv LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing product from a hopper to prevent a jam when one of his left-hand fingers was pinched between the hopper's conveyor belt and guard. | |||||
| 2017-05-31 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Railserve, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to fix a switch point that was gaping. His hand was between the switch point and the stock rail when the train moved away and the switch point snapped shut, catching and amputated his index and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2017-04-18 | Bedford Park | Illinois | U.S. Post Office - 9441 | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was making a delivery and was bitten on the hand by the resident's dog. | |||||
| 2017-02-11 | Bedford Park | Illinois | VEGETABLE JUICES INC. | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| On February 11, 2017, at approximately 8:10 a.m., an employee was struck by a forklift truck as it was being backed out of a freezer, injuring his lower right leg and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-01-30 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Pactiv, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a vertical wrapper and amputated the left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-01-07 | Bedford Park | Illinois | LAPHAM HICKEY STEEL | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet |
| On January 7, 2016, at approximately 6:30 a.m., an employee was operating a man lift when a cable failed on the lift's guarded platform, causing the lift basket to fall over 8 feet to the ground below. The employee fell with the basket, breaking his left foot and ankle. | |||||
| 2016-08-31 | Bedford Park | Illinois | MKD Electric | Fingertip(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee suffered a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2016-08-27 | Bedford Park | Illinois | PREFERRED MACHINE & TOOL PRODUCTS CORP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A employee's left ring finger was amputated when the employee and another employee were moving a wheeled cart with two I beams on it. The cart ran over a bump, the I beams shifted, and the employee's left ring finger was crushed between the two beams. | |||||
| 2016-08-22 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Bulkmatic Transport | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
| An employee was stung by a bee and experienced an allergic reaction. | |||||
| 2016-06-22 | Bedford Park | Illinois | JET CUTTING SERVICE | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's middle finger was amputated when it was pinched between a rubber feed tire and a steel tube. | |||||
| 2015-06-15 | Bedford Park | Illinois | Leggett & Platt | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| On June 15, 2015, an employee was straightening boxes on a pallet and was struck by the forks of a powered industrial vehicle. The employee was hospitalized due to the injuries received. | |||||
| 2015-05-13 | Bedford Park | Illinois | United Parcel Service, Inc. | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over the scanner cord she was using and fell to the ground, resulting in pain in her right shoulder and hospitalization. | |||||