| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-27 | Carbondale | Il | Just Construction, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee was on the roof of a garden center structure. As he moved from the gutter to a scissor lift, he fell, landing on the ground about 12 feet below and suffering a head injury. | |||||
| 2020-05-20 | Carbondale | Illinois | SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| On 5/20/2020, around 12:20 p.m., an employee was walking down the stairs and tripped on the first set. The employee struck his head and received a fracture to the left wrist and a skull fracture. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-06-07 | Carbondale | Illinois | Help at Home | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was leaving a client's home, slipped on steps and struck an elbow on the concrete. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-02-03 | Carbondale | Illinois | Memorial Hospital of Carbondale | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was removing patients due to a fire in an elevator shaft. The employee was exposed to the smoke and fumes, suffering a respiratory tract issue that required overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-01-13 | Carbondale | Illinois | Memorial Hospital | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee suffered an allergic reaction to powder coated nitrile gloves. | |||||
| 2016-08-25 | Carbondale | Illinois | Memorial Hospital | Arm(s) | Fall on same level |
| On 8/25/16 at approximately 4:45 PM, an employee reporting to work fell while walking down a ramp in the loading dock area and fractured the left arm. | |||||
| 2016-06-06 | Carbondale | Illinois | Memorial Hospital of Carbondale | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was exposed to latex balloons and suffered an allergic reaction. | |||||
| 2015-07-20 | Carbondale | Illinois | Memorial Hospital | Thoracic region | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee was walking into work on the main entrance sidewalk on 7/20/15 at approximately 7:50 AM. The employee tripped/fell, fracturing their thoracic spine. | |||||
| 2015-06-03 | Carbondale | Illinois | Vogler Motor Company Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a pallet of parts down a ramp into the basement using a non-powered pallet jack when the load got away and pinned the employee between the pallet jack and the wall breaking the employee's fibula and tibia. The employee required surgery to repair the fractures. | |||||
| 2015-03-29 | Carbondale | Illinois | Neuro Restorative | Fingertip(s) | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| On March 29, 2015, an employee sustained an amputation injury to the pinky finger at the base of the fingernail. The employee was trying to keep two patients apart when one of them bit the employee's fingertip off. | |||||
| 2015-01-06 | Carbondale | Pennsylvania | Linde Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Fall to lower level |
| An employee was injured when the brakes on a seven-car string of loaded boxcars let loose. The cars rolled into a four-car string of empty boxcars. The impact knocked an employee off the four-car string and he fell on the ground. The employee was hospitalized for lacerations. | |||||