| 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. | |||||
| 2017-04-17 | 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 | |||||