| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-11 | East Peoria | Il | Liebovich Bros., Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On October 11, 2021, an employee was using a magnet to load a piece of 3/8-inch material onto the entry rollers of a machine. The load fell off the magnet and onto the employee's left foot, breaking multiple toes. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-13 | East Peoria | Il | Texas Roadhouse | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was draining a soak tank. The employee slipped on the back dock, fell into scalding water, and suffered burns to the right leg and foot. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-02-13 | East Peoria | Il | Caterpillar Inc. | Wrist(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| On February 13, 2021, an employee was using a grinder/sander on a part. The machine lacerated the employee's left wrist. | |||||
| 2020-01-22 | East Peoria | Illinois | Versa Press, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On January 21, 2020, at around 3:00 PM, an employee was fixing a printing press when his right hand fingers were caught between the belt and pulley resulting in lacerations to the index and middle fingers. The middle fingertip was surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2019-05-09 | East Peoria | Illinois | Caterpillar, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On May 9, 2019, an employee was performing a tool change on a quenching press and suffered multiple fractures to their left arm when their left arm was caught between the tooling on the hydraulic cylinder and the base plate. | |||||
| 2019-02-07 | East Peoria | Illinois | Superior Consolidated Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On February 7, 2019, an employee was operating a hoist controller to remove chain slack during hook storage. The employee's left hand held the hoist chain in place while the hook was secured to an I-beam. The employee attached the hoist hook to the storage bar and tightened the slack so the hook would not swing. While tightening the slack, the employee's left little finger was caught between the hoist chain and the I-beam, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-09-02 | East Peoria | Illinois | AECOM, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was using a hoist to change a cooling liquid bag filter on a machine when the strap broke, causing the filter's metal strainer to come down on the employee's left hand and amputate the left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-08-29 | East Peoria | Illinois | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| On August 29, 2018, at 9:36 a.m., an employee had just returned a two-step stool to its storage location after using it. When she turned around, she tripped on the stool and fell on the floor. She was hospitalized with a bone fracture. | |||||
| 2018-07-10 | East Peoria | Illinois | PAR Electrical Contractors, INC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee suffered heat-related illness while prepping a site for utility pole installations, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-07-05 | East Peoria | Illinois | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On July 5, 2018, an employee was guiding a gear into a gearbox. The employee's right middle finger was caught between the gear and the gearbox, resulting in the amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-05-15 | East Peoria | Illinois | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee drove a tractor to a paint load station, stood up, and was about to begin sanding an area of the tractor when the employee tripped and fell approximately 2 feet to the tractor tracks, before rolling and falling approximately 4 more feet to the concrete below. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-02-27 | East Peoria | Illinois | Superior Consolidated Industries, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On February 27, 2018, at approximately 7:00 a.m., an employee was performing maintenance on a conveyor line when his fingers were caught between a pulley and belt, resulting in a left ring fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-08-28 | East Peoria | Illinois | Caterpillar, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was flipping an approximately 100-pound part on a parts tub/table when his finger was smashed and partially amputated between the part and the table. | |||||
| 2017-01-06 | East Peoria | Illinois | LIEBOVICH BROS., INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| While checking the surface quality of steel at the automatic blanking line, an employee fell into the shear bed area of the platform. The shear bed hold-downs then clamped onto the employee's left middle and ring fingers, fracturing them. | |||||
| 2016-06-15 | East Peoria | Illinois | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On or about June 15, 2016, an employee was moving a nylon board to the assembly table and in the processed pinched her left index finger resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2016-06-09 | East Peoria | Illinois | Hinckley Springs | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee was entering a laboratory at a customer's location to deliver drinking water when a gust of wind and the pressurization of the laboratory caused the door to close on the employee's right pinky finger, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-02-03 | East Peoria | Illinois | CATERPILLAR, INC. | Forearm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee engaged in painting operations for large tractors became entangled in the equipment and suffered a distal forearm amputation. | |||||
| 2016-01-24 | East Peoria | Illinois | ATS Global, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was installing a part in a milling machine using an air hoist. While lowering the part the last inch, the hoist came down and the part dropped, fracturing and partially amputating the employee's right middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-10-21 | East Peoria | Illinois | Aecom, Inc. | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee was walking down the hallway when he tripped and fell fracturing the hip and thigh. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||