| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-16 | Calumet City | Illinois | FP Stores | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was trying to close a baler door with two other employees. The two employees were pulling down on the door while the injured employee was pushing the paper into the baler. The door then pulled closed and pinched the employee's fingertips. The employee suffered two fingertip amputations. | |||||
| 2017-09-28 | Calumet | Oklahoma | Northern Ag Service, Inc | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
| An employee was working on the hydraulic line of a loader when the loader's bucket fell on the employee's foot, amputating some toes. | |||||
| 2017-05-12 | Calumet | Oklahoma | Farrar Construction Co. Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
| An employee was welding pipes when his left index and middle finger were caught and amputated in a pipe clamp. | |||||
| 2017-04-17 | Calumet City | Illinois | Apek Incorporated | Eye(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| On April 17, 2017, at approximately 3:30 p.m., an employee received an eye injury when he was struck by a nail from a second employee's nail gun. | |||||
| 2016-05-04 | Calumet City | Illinois | Plastics Color Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On May 4, 2016, at approximately 2:30 pm, an employee noticed that the (powders) raw materials were not going down easily through the mixing chamber (approximately 165 cubic inches) of an extrusion machine fitted with a rotating shaft "rotor" with a maximum speed of 100/500 rpm's. He attempted to clear out the material from the mixing chamber with a putty knife at different speeds (controlled/adjusted by the employee himself) beginning at 460 rpm, then down to 120 rpm, and then up to 130 rpm whe | |||||
| 2015-10-08 | Calumet | Oklahoma | Farrar Construction Co. Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Employee 1 was helping Employee 2 weld a flange to a pipe. Employee 1 was holding a 20" diameter, 2" thick flange in place for Employee 2. The flange was held up by a pipe jack. The flange slipped and Employee 1's fingers were caught between the flange and the pipe jack. His right middle finger was amputated between the first and second joint and his ring finger was amputated at the first joint. | |||||