| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-20 | O Fallon | Mo | Ramos Drywall Specialist LLC | Jaw, chin | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee working for Ramos Drywall Specialist LLC stepped into a wooden box that was being lifted by a telehandler. The box shifted on the telehandler's forks and it fell along with the employee, landing on a scaffold system below. The employee suffered a broken jaw and a facial laceration. | |||||
| 2020-03-13 | O Fallon | Missouri | RAINBOW PAINTING COMPANY INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| On March 13, 2020, an employee was overcome by gasoline motor fumes while spray-painting inside a home being built. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-03-11 | O Fallon | Missouri | O'FALLON CASTING | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to clear a jam in a line so that flour would feed from a hopper. The employee's right middle finger was caught between a chain and a hook; the first digit of the right middle finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-02-25 | O Fallon | Missouri | TRUE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attending a meeting near a production line. He activated a tilt table in order to move it out of the way. The table came down on his left foot, fracturing the big toe. | |||||
| 2019-05-25 | O Fallon | Illinois | Schnuck Market Inc | Arm(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was moving a pallet of merchandise with a pallet jack when their arm was caught between the pallet jack and a carboard baler and fractured. | |||||
| 2019-05-08 | O Fallon | Missouri | CLARKDIETRICH | Hand(s) | Struck against object or equipment |
| An employee was operating a slitter machine when it malfunctioned. As the employee attempted to fix the malfunction, their hand slammed into the blade and sustained a laceration. | |||||
| 2019-04-17 | O Fallon | Missouri | WATERWAY GAS AND CAR WASH | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was driving an SUV out of the carwash. He lost control of the vehicle and it struck a second employee and another vehicle. The second employee suffered multiple injuries to the back, legs, and rear. | |||||
| 2019-03-04 | O Fallon | Illinois | HSHS St. Elizabeth Hospital | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was entering the hospital from the parking lot when she tripped over an object and fell on the concrete sidewalk. The suffered a fractured nose and left wrist. | |||||
| 2019-01-10 | O Fallon | Missouri | S & H TRANSPORTATION, INC. | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| A driver for S&H Transportation was using a tugger to unload his trailer. A forklift operator employed by another company collided with him as he was exiting the trailer. The S&H Transportation employee was hospitalized with two broken ankles. | |||||
| 2018-09-17 | Fallon | Nevada | ExCal Construction, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee performing carpentry work fell from an 8 foot stepladder to the ground below and sustained a broken right wrist, bruised chest, and bruised face, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-07-30 | O Fallon | Illinois | FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WATERLOO | Brain | Struck against stationary object or equipment while rising |
| An employee had just picked up a teller tape that had fallen to the floor. Her head struck a countertop, causing a concussion. | |||||
| 2018-07-19 | O Fallon | Missouri | US BANK BRANCH | Thigh(s) | Stings and venomous bites |
| An employee was bitten on the left thigh by a brown recluse spider. The bite became infected and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-09 | Fallon | Nevada | Naval Air Station Fallon | Coccygeal region | Fall while sitting |
| An employee was in the process of sitting in an office chair with rollers when he stepped on one of the wheels, causing the chair to roll out from under him. He then fell on and injured his tailbone. | |||||
| 2018-01-29 | O Fallon | Missouri | TRINITY PRODUCTS | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee and his coworker were repositioning a disconnected steel forklift mast when the mast attachment fell on his left leg, breaking his tibia and fibula and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2018-01-17 | O Fallon | Missouri | D-7 CONSTRUCTION, LLC | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
| An employee was on the roof of a building installing his anchor point to hook up his personal fall protection when he slipped on an ice patch and fell 21 feet to the ground below. He broke both wrists, both arms, his left leg, and his left hip, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-08-04 | O Fallon | Missouri | True Manufacturing Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a wire shelf welding machine when the machine dropped a crossbar in a crooked position. As he was attempting to correct the crossbar's placement, a press mechanism inside the machine came down on his left middle finger, amputating it from the fingertip to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2017-06-26 | O Fallon | Missouri | STRAIT-FLEX INTERNATIONAL INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was wrapping PVC material on a rolling table when her right hand was caught between the table core and the material, amputating her fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-06-28 | O Fallon | Illinois | Sams Club | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| At 11:34 a.m., an employee was working with an electric pallet jack while another receiving associate had a forklift. When the employee went to move the electric pallet jack, the handle was turned in such a way that when it moved, it moved backwards and smashed her left-hand pinky into the forklift battery. Her pinky fingertip had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2016-05-17 | O Fallon | Missouri | RICHARDS BUILDING SUPPLY | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was staging material on a roof that was wet from rain when he slipped and fell to the ground, fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
| 2016-03-30 | O Fallon | Missouri | TRUE MANUFACTURING | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Two employees were performing maintenance on the Schlatter machine (high speed machine that produces wire shelving). One of the employees suffered the amputation of the left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-02-20 | O Fallon | Missouri | Midwest Petroleum | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was taking out the trash on February 20, 2016. When she opened the gate to the dumpster area, the wind blew the gate back at her and knocked her down, breaking her left hip and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2015-09-17 | O Fallon | Missouri | Permian Plastics | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was injured on September 17, 2015, while retrieving a mold for setup of a plastic injection molding machine. The employee was retrieving a mold from a rack system approximately 8 feet tall. He climbed to the second shelf of the rack system (approximately 4-5 feet) off the floor. When attempting to descend the rack system he slipped and fell to the floor below. He landed on his buttocks and back. | |||||
| 2015-06-22 | O Fallon | Missouri | Gerdau | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While the employee was bending two pieces of rebar, his left hand pinky finger was pinched by the roller. As he pulled his hand off the glove, the tip of his finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-03-12 | O Fallon | Illinois | Mc Bride & Son Properties | Ankle(s) | Trip on uneven surface without fall |
| An employee was walking from a concrete sidewalk to a gravel area with a client. She tripped on gravel and rolled her left ankle, breaking it in three places. She was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2015-03-04 | O Fallon | Missouri | O'FALLON CASTING LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was hand washing an aluminum casting at the "hand wash cabinet" (machine) using 3,700 psi water pressure to remove ceramic materials from the casting. The employee was wearing hand protection (double glove with inner neoprene and outer cut-resistant Kevlar with neoprene coating). The employee suffered a water injection injury to the right middle finger, requiring overnight hospitalization and surgery at Barnes St. Peters. | |||||