| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-10 | East Alton | Il | Olin Winchester, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was grabbing a cartridge that had fallen when punches in an ejection cartridge capper came down. The employee's right little finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-07-13 | East Alton | Il | Wieland Rolled Products North America, LLC | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| A tractor trailer driver climbed into the driver's seat of their truck, set down their lunch box and hat, and started to get back out of the truck to get some gloves. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a compound fracture to the wrist that required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-10-15 | East Alton | Il | Wieland Rolled Products North America LLC | Upper and lower limb(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was attempting to realign a floor plate in the metal transfer run when a coil of brass product fell off the buggy, pinning the employee's lower leg. The employee sustained a fractured lower leg and wrist and a laceration on the back of the lower leg. | |||||
| 2020-07-06 | East Alton | Illinois | UPS Customer Center | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee had entered the cab of a delivery truck and was closing the slide door. The door caught the employee's left ring finger as it closed and amputated the top of the finger. | |||||
| 2020-07-02 | East Alton | Illinois | Hogan Transports Inc | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On July 2, 2020, at 2:00 p.m., an employee was unloading freight at a store when a rollatini measuring 2' x 4' fell on his leg. The rolltainer was on a lift gate and became unlevel, tipping over and striking the employee's ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a closed, non-displaced fracture of the medial malleolus of the right tibia that required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-03-23 | East Alton | Illinois | Wieland Rolled Products North America, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was measuring the thickness of a brass strip as it was being fed into a press. A micrometer the employee was using was pulled into a 4-inch gap at the press opening, taking the employee's right hand with it. The employee's little finger was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2019-02-28 | East Alton | Illinois | Global Brass and Copper LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was replacing a conveyor roll on a three-coil miller. As the employee aligned a shaft and bearing, the roll (being supported by an overhead crane) moved upward, pinching the employee's finger and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-01-08 | East Alton | Illinois | PREMIER AIR CENTER, INC. | Multiple body parts | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was approaching an aircraft door to recover the aircraft when the pressurized door released and hit the employee. The employee lost a tooth and suffered right arm and facial fractures. | |||||
| 2016-08-25 | East Alton | Illinois | Global Brass and Copper LLC | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee's foot was caught in a pinch point between the shell of the melting furnace and the casting floor mezzanine while attempting to unlatch a hook related to the safety bin chute. Three toes on the employee's left foot were amputated. | |||||
| 2016-07-29 | East Alton | Illinois | GBC Metals LLC dba Olin Brass | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was assigned to install a small hydraulic cylinder at 6 Clean #1 Payoff hold down roll. The employee had the cylinder in place on the blank end clevis with the pin inserted. While the employee was lining up the rod end clevis, their right hand pinky finger was partially inserted in the pin hole. When the cylinder dropped, it struck the tip of the employee's gloved finger resulting in amputation of an eighth of an inch of the finger. The amputation did not include bone. | |||||
| 2016-03-02 | East Alton | Illinois | OLIN CORPORATION, WINCHESTER DIVISION | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on a feed system and attempting to reline the feed line to the machine when her right middle finger was pinched by the homing plate, amputating her fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-01-19 | East Alton | Illinois | Olin Corporation - Winchester Division | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to retrieve a tool that had rolled beneath a material feed system and her hand contacted the bevel gear resulting in an open fracture to the right middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-08-11 | East Alton | Illinois | GBC Metals LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was finishing up repairs to the 4DC Up Elevator. The employee proceeded to pull slack out of the drive chain. After cleaning the teeth of the sprocket, the weight of the chain pinched the employee's finger between the chain and a sprocket resulting in the amputation of 3/8 inch of the tip of the left right finger. LOTO was used. | |||||
| 2015-03-26 | East Alton | Illinois | Olin Corporation - Winchester Division | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On March 26, 2015, an employee working on a power press reached his hand into the machine and hit a switch causing the press to engage causing a partial amputation of his right pinky finger. | |||||