| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-26 | Granite City | Il | TOTALL METAL RECYCLING, INC. | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was overseeing unloading and receiving at the docks. The employee walked over to address a forklift operator when a skid steer backed out of a trailer and struck the employee, pinning him between the forklift and the skid steer and resulting in a broken right leg. | |||||
| 2021-10-17 | Granite City | Il | Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. dba Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting a machine when he came into contact with a moving belt. He suffered a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-09-13 | Granite City | Il | Amsted Rail Company, Inc. | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| At about 7:45 a.m. on September 13, 2021, an employee was struck by a forklift as it backed up to pick up a stack of wooden pallets. The employee suffered an avulsion injury to the left leg and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-07-08 | Granite City | Il | United States Steel Corporation Granite City Works | Ankle(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
| On July 7, 2021, at approximately 5:30 p.m., an employee was parking a front-end loader after moving hot coils from production to shipping in a steel mill. While exiting the front-end loader, the rear wheel on the left side of the loader exploded, throwing the employee approximately 20 feet from the boarding platform. The employee was hospitalized with broken bones in both ankles. | |||||
| 2021-03-27 | Granite City | Il | United States Steel Corp Granite City Works | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was assisting an operator when they noticed an unusual amount of steam/leaking water coming from another area. The employee went to investigate and sustained burns from the steam, resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-04-01 | Granite City | Illinois | Max B. Mullins Landscaping, Inc. dba Mayfields Landscaping | Lumbar region | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was mowing grass on a riding mower. The mower caught a boulder and threw the employee backward to the ground. The employee suffered a lower back injury and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-03-08 | Granite City | Illinois | United States Steel Corporation Granite City Works | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The cast deck crew were performing a ladle exchange, which involves the ladle turret being rotated from north to south to exchange the empty ladle with a full ladle. The crew were changing the ladle shroud during the ladle exchange. The crew removed the spent shroud from the empty ladle and turret rotation was then initiated to exchange the empty ladle. The crew was placing a new shroud onto the shrouding device, when an employee’s foot was caught between the shrouding device and the access stai | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | Granite City | Illinois | US Steel Granite City Works | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On September 6, 2019, an employee was working as a keeper helper on the cast floor at the blast furnaces. This involved observing the filling of torpedo ladles, maintaining the iron run, and taking temperature and iron samples. After experiencing cramping, the employee was hospitalized with heat related illness. | |||||
| 2019-08-14 | Granite City | Illinois | US Steel Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was in the locker room preparing to leave for their shift. The employee felt stomach pain, began vomiting, and was hospitalized, suffering from heat stress. | |||||
| 2019-07-10 | Granite City | Illinois | US Steel Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was monitoring ladles and was hospitalized due to heat related illness. | |||||
| 2019-07-09 | Granite City | Illinois | US Steel Corporation | Scalp | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was in-cutting a steel slab with a portable burning machine. The machine did not cut all the way through the slab. The employee bent down to turn off the machine and the end of the slab broke loose, causing the machine to come down and hit the employee in the back of the head. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from a laceration and bleeding. | |||||
| 2019-05-09 | Granite City | Illinois | Nu-Way Transportation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| The injured employee was exiting a tractor-trailer. He stepped down onto the front tire, slipped and fell approximately four feet to the ground resulting in four broken ribs and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2019-04-17 | Granite City | Illinois | Granite City Slag | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| A piece of iron became lodged in the jaw of a material processing plant. An employee climbed up the plant. Some material fell from the bottom of the jaw causing the counter-weight to rotate. This caused a belt to move and the employee's finger was pinned between a pulley and the belt. The employee's left ring finger was amputated to the first knuckle. The plant was locked out/tagged out at the time. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | Granite City | Illinois | Baily International | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee had just completed mixing the ingredients and was dumping the mix into a tote. The tote was placed under the ribbon blender and the two discharge doors were opened. The blender pushes the product out the discharge doors and into the totes. Towards the end of this process, the employee noticed a small pile of product inside the discharge door. She attempted to knock it into the tote, at which time, the blender rotated around and caught her right hand between the edge of the discharge | |||||
| 2018-07-26 | Granite City | Illinois | Thermal Solutions Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee entered a supply area and opened flaps. An open valve from a draining stack and bell emitted carbon monoxide vapors into the supply area; the employee suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and lost consciousness. | |||||
| 2018-03-30 | Granite City | Illinois | Justin Shrum dba All Pallet Service | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 3/30/2018, an employee was operating a chop saw when the employee's left hand contacted the blade, requiring a surgical amputation of the index finger. | |||||
| 2017-03-16 | Granite City | Illinois | Gateway Packaging Company | Scalp | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 3/15/17 at approximately 9:45 PM, an employee crawled under a bag machine to place a bucket in the paper catch to capture dripping glue while the machine was running. The employee's hair was caught in a moving shaft in the spot paste unit resulting in a scalping injury. | |||||
| 2016-10-04 | Granite City | Illinois | Amsted Rail Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On October 4, 2016, an employee was positioning a mold that was to be lifted by a gantry. The employee's hand was on one of the chains attached to the mold. When the chain was tightened, the employee's left thumb was caught and partially amputated by the chain (tissue and nail loss; no bone loss). | |||||
| 2016-09-19 | Granite City | Illinois | Infinite Granite City LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was changing bags in a bag house with three coworkers when his left hand entered a rotary air mover, partially amputating three fingers. | |||||
| 2016-08-10 | Granite City | Illinois | Walrmart #1761 | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was struck in the legs by a motorized wheelchair and subsequently hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-03-30 | Granite City | Illinois | THE STEEL WORKS LLC | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On 03/30/2016, at approximately 9:30am, an employee was standing in a hallway. Another employee was driving a forklift that was carrying a large metal coil weighing 3,265 lbs. The coil slipped off the forklift and fell onto the employee's right foot, crushing it. | |||||
| 2016-02-21 | Granite City | Illinois | KRAFT FOODS INC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was standing on top of water pumps to reach a power disconnect. The frame bolts on one of the water pumps were corroded, and the employee's weight caused the pump to break loose and release hot water. The hot water contacted the employee, causing second degree burns to the legs and the lower back. | |||||
| 2015-11-23 | Granite City | Illinois | MAYCO INDUSTRIES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting billets using a band saw and amputated his right thumb up to 1/3 of the finger nail. | |||||
| 2015-11-20 | Granite City | Illinois | Lewis and Clark Marine Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell 15 feet from a 20 foot straight portable ladder breaking his left leg. | |||||
| 2015-11-03 | Granite City | Illinois | Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. dba Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
| The employee was washing a stripper filler machine with a 4 to 5 inch diameter flexible hose that hung down from the ceiling. The employee noted a sharp pain in the back during the cleaning operation and heard a pop when the employee bent over to pick up the tool. | |||||
| 2015-09-16 | Granite City | Illinois | Amsted Rail Company, Inc. | Pelvis | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was crushed between a rolling transfer car and a parked forklift resulting in a fractured pelvic bone. | |||||
| 2015-07-28 | Granite City | Illinois | United States Steel Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee working on a furnace experienced heat-related stomach and leg cramps and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-07-27 | Granite City | Illinois | Matrix North American Construction, Inc | Lumbar region | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
| An employee was working on a blast furnace, checking rigging that was used to install the large valve linkage. The employee bent down and started having lower back spasms, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-05-12 | Granite City | Illinois | Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning around a drain in the area where milk cartons are placed on a conveyor belt. The employee reached in around the conveyor's chain-and-sprocket drive, which pulled and partially amputated the employee's right thumb between the sprocket and chain. | |||||
| 2015-05-01 | Granite City | Illinois | KEELEY & SONS, INC. | Leg(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was on a tubular pile adjusting straps. The pile rolled, catching his foot and causing him to fall, fracturing his right leg. No cribbing was used at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-04-01 | Granite City | Illinois | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee pulled on a rope that opens an overhead hatch. The rope broke, causing the employee to lose his balance and fall 30 inches. He broke his hip and required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2015-03-03 | Granite City | Illinois | HEIDTMAN STEEL PRODUCTS | Multiple lower extremities locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was inspecting a tooling knife on a slitting machine. The employee fell into the machine when it was jogged forward. His left foot was degloved up to the ankle, and he broke numerous bones. He was hospitalized and required surgery. | |||||
| 2015-01-31 | Granite City | Illinois | The Steel Works, LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee operating a pendant-controlled overhead crane was injured when they were moving banded strips of steel to place them into storage. Some of the steel was dropped and the employee received a leg injury. | |||||
| 2015-01-26 | Granite City | Illinois | SunCoke Energy | Nonclassifiable | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
| An accident occurred on or around January 26, 2015, when an employee was working on a MAC valve and was exposed to fly ash. | |||||