| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-19 | Elwood | Il | K-FIVE CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION | Lower leg(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting a vertical board with a portable cut-off saw when something got caught in the saw and pulled the saw away from the employee. The blade struck the employee's left shin, resulting in a laceration. | |||||
| 2021-09-17 | Hazelwood | Mo | GKN Aerospace | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure |
| After a chemical leak at the plant, an employee reported heavy breathing and eye pain. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-08-20 | Hazelwood | Mo | J F AHERN CO | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing a sprinkler system mainline when they fell from a ladder to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to the right side of the pelvis. | |||||
| 2021-08-19 | Elwood | Ks | SNORKEL | Fingertip(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was lifting a turntable out of a chassis of a boom. A crane lifting strap broke and hit his left hand, breaking his ring and little fingers. The ring fingertip was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2021-08-13 | Hazelwood | Mo | NATURE'S BAKERY | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was pushing equipment into place when a drawer on a machine closed and amputated 8mm of their little finger. | |||||
| 2021-07-29 | Elwood | Il | STEPAN COMPANY | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee was walking down a paved road when they fell and landed on their right arm/elbow. | |||||
| 2021-06-28 | Elwood | Il | Parsec, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was climbing down a ladder on a rail car. The employee's foot slipped on the bottom rung and he fell backward about 2 feet to the ground, hitting his head and suffering a concussion and a contusion to the back of the head. | |||||
| 2021-05-06 | Hazelwood | Mo | Woods Basement Systems, Inc. | Eye(s) | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was trying to free a stuck anchor bit and his head was hit above his left eye resulting in a fractured orbital socket. | |||||
| 2021-03-21 | Hazelwood | Mo | CABKA NORTH AMERICA INC. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was on an auger when it was turned on. The employee suffered a toe amputation. | |||||
| 2020-09-01 | Elwood | Il | Help at Home LLC. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| While standing on a step stool to clean a mirror, an employee fell backward onto a hard surface and suffered a back injury. | |||||
| 2020-08-21 | Hazelwood | Mo | SOUTHWESTERN WIRE, INC. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell from a ladder to the ground and sustained a laceration and possible concussion. | |||||
| 2020-06-12 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Swift Transportation | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| While exiting from a truck, an employee stepped into a pot hole and fell, fracturing her right hip. | |||||
| 2020-06-02 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN AEROSPACE | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee sustained an amputation to the right index finger while changing a bit on a router machine. | |||||
| 2020-01-30 | Hazelwood | Missouri | U.S. Postal Service | Foot (feet) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
| A USPS employee was pulling a pallet jack when the pallet jack ran over the employee's foot, resulting in multiple broken foot bones and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-01-13 | Hazelwood | Missouri | USA Recycling DBA Pallet Logistics Management | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| A maintenance employee climbed a ladder to access an intake on top of a grinder machine and install new equipment. He was attempting to remove a bolt with a wrench when the wrench slipped off the bolt. The momentum of his body caused him to lose his balance and fall 6 feet to the concrete surface below, fracturing his left wrist and left leg. | |||||
| 2020-01-09 | Elwood | Kansas | Nor-Am Cold Storage | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| The injured employee was working in a warehouse and was using a motorized double jack. A nearby powered industrial truck (PIT) was lifting a pallet of boxes that contained frozen meat and weighed 60 pounds each. The PIT struck a cross-member of a storage rack. The load then shifted and the PIT overturned. The boxes fell off the pallet and struck the injured employee breaking his right tibia. | |||||
| 2019-06-18 | Elwood | Illinois | Hubert Lines LTD | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell to the ground while performing maintenance on a crane, suffering a head injury. | |||||
| 2019-05-21 | Elwood | Illinois | Prairie Creek Grain Co. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was visually checking a conveyor system located outside. The employee slipped and fell and amputated their right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-05-17 | Elwood | Illinois | PARSEC, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| A crane operator was closing the crane door and pinched his left thumb between the door and the door frame. | |||||
| 2019-02-06 | Hazelwood | Missouri | NATURE'S BAKERY, LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was feeding fig bars onto a line/conveyor belt. The employee was walking along the conveyor belt line to address a jam when the employee tripped on the leg of a chair and fell to the ground, fracturing an ankle. | |||||
| 2019-01-11 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Boeing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a 4-inch piece of foam in half using a band saw when his left thumb contacted the blade and was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2018-08-14 | Hazelwood | Missouri | FISERV | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was attempting to unload paper from a wooden pallet when the pallet broke. She tried to stabilize the paper, but it fell on her, causing her to fall backwards/sideways and hit her had on the floor. She suffered bruising on her legs and a possible concussion. | |||||
| 2018-06-11 | Hazelwood | Missouri | THE BOEING COMPANY | Ankle(s) | Trip over self without fall |
| An employee was walking through the grass from her car to her office and rolled her ankle. Her right ankle was fractured. | |||||
| 2018-04-06 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Amazon Sort Center | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a forklift when his left leg went outside of the forklift and was pinned against a guardrail, fracturing his left ankle. | |||||
| 2018-03-18 | Hazelwood | Missouri | CABKA NORTH AMERICA INC. | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While trimming flash from a plastic pallet, the knife slipped and stabbed the employee's thigh. | |||||
| 2018-03-08 | Hazelwood | Missouri | CABKA NORTH AMERICA INC. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
| An employee was working on a 220-volt breaker when an arc flash occurred, resulting in third degree burns over much of his body. | |||||
| 2017-07-05 | Elwood | Illinois | Schneider Logistics | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was loading cartons onto a trailer. He was standing on a step stool when he reached to the side and fell, landing on the carton that he was loading and injuring his back. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-04-27 | Elwood | Nebraska | Crop Production Services | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was transferring chemicals from the tinder truck to the applicator when the transfer hose broke open and sprayed her face, especially her eyes, with 32% nitrogen, Acuron and Gramoxone SL. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-03-21 | Hazelwood | Missouri | U.S. Postal Service | Head | Struck against stationary object or equipment |
| An employee was unloading a trailer when his head hit a piece of metal on the trailer. He suffered a head laceration and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-03-18 | Elwood | Illinois | American Auto Works | Scalp | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was hanging bridge plates and lost his balance in the rail car and fell to the ground. The employee suffered a laceration to the back of his head. | |||||
| 2016-09-03 | Hazelwood | Missouri | US Tool | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee climbed through a window to access a locked room. He fell onto a wire cart, fracturing two right-side ribs and suffering internal bleeding. | |||||
| 2016-08-31 | Elwood | Illinois | Clearwater Paper Corp. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was hospitalized after a fall from a ladder. | |||||
| 2016-06-28 | Elwood | Illinois | Parsec, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was riding on the side of a chassis racker (a specialized industrial truck) while being trained. The trainer was in the driver's seat operating the industrial truck. The trainer drove the truck too close to a nearby chassis, and the injured employee's leg was caught between the moving truck and the nearby chassis. He sustained a severe laceration/cut to his left calf/leg that required stitches and overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-06-14 | Elwood | Illinois | SCHNEIDER LOGISTICS | Nonclassifiable | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was injured when boxes fell on him. | |||||
| 2016-05-24 | Elwood | Illinois | Schneider Logistics Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a stand-up forklift, backing away from a dock door, and pulled into the path of another stand-up forklift resulting in three fractured toes on the left foot. | |||||
| 2016-05-17 | Hazelwood | Missouri | CABKA NORTH AMERICA | Arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was cutting flash off of one of the pallets with a knife when he missed the pallet and cut his left arm, damaging his arteries. | |||||
| 2016-02-22 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN Aerospace | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was blowing chips off parts and fixtures with compressed air in preparation for the next machine set up when he tripped and fell over a tooling post, injuring his hip and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2016-02-08 | Hazelwood | Missouri | XPO Logistics - Supply Chain | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was operating a stand-up forklift when the forklift struck a shelf support, chipping the employee's vertebrae and other bones. | |||||
| 2015-09-26 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Cabka North America | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee in the molding department was attempting to remove material that clogged the auger of an injection molding machine. His hand got caught in the auger, which was not shut down at the time of the incident. He sustained left-hand and wrist lacerations, as well as torn tendons, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2015-08-21 | Elwood | Illinois | Lava SCS, LLC | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On August 21, 2015, an employee was scanning products on the dock when she was struck by an unstable load (boxed flat screen TVs) being transported by a forklift truck. Approximately 500 pounds fell on the employee, who sustained crushing injuries to her left ankle, ligament damage to her right ankle, and contusions to her lower body and both legs. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-07-19 | Elwood | Illinois | RYDER INTEGRATED LOGISTICS | Brain | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee sustained severe injuries while operating a forklift with a clamp attachment. The forklift flipped, and the employee sustained a head concussion and a broken right hand, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-06-08 | Elwood | Illinois | Conglobal Industries | Head | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee struck himself in the head with a hammer. | |||||
| 2015-04-29 | Hazelwood | Missouri | Printpack, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
| An employee was hospitalized for burns. | |||||
| 2015-04-09 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN AEROSPACE | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On or about 11am, on 4/9/2015, a pipe fitter was working off an 8 ft. A-frame ladder about 5 feet off the ground, trying to loosen a valve on the nitric acid line. The valve broke loose spraying liquid onto the employee. As the employee attempted to block the spray, he lost his balance and fell off the ladder, cracking an L3 vertebrae. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-04-04 | Elwood | Illinois | American Auto Works | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee parked on a ramp, then opened the railcar door. The employee's right thumb got caught between the ramp and door, causing a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2015-02-11 | Hazelwood | Missouri | TRUEBLUE COMPANY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| Employee cleaning rail cars attempted to close the rail car door. He amputated right-hand digits (ring and pinky fingers) in the process. | |||||