| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-21 | Dixon | Il | Raynor Mfg. Co. | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was loading garage doors on a flatbed truck. A stack of garage door sections (about 7 feet high) fell onto the employee, causing three fractures in the leg and ankle. | |||||
| 2019-01-25 | Dixon | Illinois | Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital | Multiple body parts | Fall, slip, trip |
| On January 25, 2019, at approximately 4:29 a.m., an employee fell on icy/snowy cement stairs while walking to his car to leave work for the day. He was hospitalized with syncope, lower back pain, and sprains/strains to the lower back, left hip, left knee, and left femur. | |||||
| 2018-09-25 | Dixon | Illinois | R. P. Lumber Co., Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| While trying to straighten straps across a double-stacked, plastic-wrapped unit of lumber on a flatbed trailer, an employee slipped and fell about 10 feet to the paved ground below. During the fall, the employee struck the edge of the trailer bed. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury with brain bleeding, a cracked T4 vertebra, a cut left ear and contusions. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-02-14 | Dixon | Illinois | DIXON DIRECT LLC | Thigh(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was webbing up a press and standing between two units when she contacted her right leg against a small step ladder. The employee felt a pop in her left leg and sustained a broken left femur. | |||||
| 2017-09-29 | Dixon | Illinois | Flex-O-Glass, Inc. | Multiple lower extremities locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| A temporary employee was removing folds from the plastic sheet/film product web that was running through the greenhouse rewind machine. The employee's right foot slipped and was caught in an ingoing nip point between rotating rollers. The employee sustained compound fractures to his lower leg, ankle and foot. The rollers were unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-05-08 | Dixon | Illinois | Raynor Mfg. Co. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working on a second level mezzanine, loading materials onto a forklift, when the employee fell from the mezzanine to floor level, suffering a broken arm, pelvis, and ribs, as well as internal bleeding. | |||||
| 2017-03-14 | Dixon | Illinois | United States Postal Service | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee was lifting packages and suffered a strangulated hernia. | |||||
| 2016-09-29 | Dixon | Illinois | DIXON DIRECT LLC | Elbow(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| On September 29, 2016, at approximately 10:15 AM, an employee walking through the facility was struck by a powered industrial vehicle. The employee then fell and suffered a broken left elbow, requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-07-31 | Dixon | Illinois | Plews, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating an auto-bend machine. She was inserting a piece of metal bar into the machine when her finger got caught in the machine. Her finger was smashed between the metal bar and the tubing, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2015-01-09 | Dixon | Illinois | KATHERINE SHAW BETHEA HOSPITAL | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| Employee was moving pieces of wood into the hospital and incurred a splinter to his hand. He removed the splinter and a cellulitis infection occurred, requiring hospitalization for treatment. | |||||