Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-26 | Gurnee | Il | Little Lady Foods | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was working on a pizza production line, checking the weight of pizzas after they passed through a "waterfall" section that put cheese on them. She was removing some cheese that had built up on a roller when she was pulled into the rollers on the bottom side of the conveyor. She suffered fractures to the right arm and was hospitalized, undergoing surgery. | |||||
2020-05-29 | Gurnee | Illinois | Nickels & Dimes, Inc. dba Rink Side Sports | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Two employees were repairing a bearing on an ice resurfacer. One of the employees reached in to adjust the bearing and suffered an amputation to the right middle finger from the nailbed forward. | |||||
2019-02-21 | Gurnee | Illinois | Carey Electric Contracting, Inc. | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was on an 8-foot stepladder when one of the spreader bars broke causing the ladder to twist and turn throwing the employee off the ladder. The employee suffered a broken right arm. | |||||
2019-01-09 | Gurnee | Illinois | Payson Casters, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
An employee was up righting a table with another employee when the other employee dropped the table and the tabletop fell on the injured employee's finger, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation. | |||||
2018-04-10 | Gurnee | Illinois | Local Roofing Co., Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was helping to move some roofing equipment and was walking on the flat roof when he stepped into standing water, slipped, and fell to the same level, breaking his lower left leg. | |||||
2018-03-14 | Gurnee | Illinois | Averus, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was mixing cleaning chemicals to clean a filter when sodium hydroxide splashed in his face, causing skin and eye irritation. | |||||
2015-10-19 | Gurnee | Illinois | Little Lady Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a machine that packages frozen pizzas into cartons when her hand was pulled into an in-running nip point, amputating her left-hand middle fingertip. |