| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-23 | Hillsdale | Il | The Installation Group, LLC | Thigh(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee fell through a grating on a mezzanine. The employee landed on the concrete surface below and suffered a broken right femur. | |||||
| 2021-01-03 | Hillsdale | Il | Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. | Skull | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| A maintenance employee working in a hot box area slipped on a buildup of ice on the floor. The employee fell backward and sustained a skull fracture resulting in hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-06-04 | Hillsdale | Illinois | Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by animal, n.e.c. |
| On June 4, 2020, an employee was trying to get a cow to move from a scale. The cow stood up and pushed the employee against a fence, causing fractures to the left hip, pelvis, and sacrum. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-09-11 | Hillsdale | Illinois | Hillsdale Elevator Company | Heel(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On September 11, 2019, at approximately 2:30 PM, an employee lost his balance and fell off an A-frame ladder while cleaning a wall inside an empty grain bin. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to both heels. | |||||
| 2019-07-29 | Hillsdale | Illinois | Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee working on a tallow hot tank was loosening a clamp on a pipe when he was sprayed with 200 degree product, resulting in burns to his face, neck, chest, wrist, and hands. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-05-22 | Hillsdale | New Jersey | Kings Supermarket | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee stepped onto a wooden pallet, then onto a box to reach a box of vinyl gloves that were on a storage rack. She was approximately 12 inches off the floor when she stepped down, tripped on plastic wrap, and fell to the floor, landing on her left side. She broke her left hip and required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-03-07 | Hillsdale | Illinois | Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. | Jaw, chin | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was hoisting hides with a hoist attached to a support beam. The beam failed and fell, striking the employee in the head and breaking the employee's jaw. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-01-07 | Hillsdale | New Jersey | Workonomics Staffing Resource LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was emptying a garbage container when the employee's right middle finger became wedged between the garbage container and the garbage truck, resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-08-31 | Hillsdale | Illinois | Tyson Foods, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was performing maintenance on two auger conveyors when the conveyor cover fell off and struck a pot of hot fat, which had a magnetic cover, 4 to 5 feet below the employee. The metal band/lock around the magnetic cover broke, allowing the pressurized fat to spray out and contact the employee, who received second and third degree burns, primarily on the lower legs. | |||||
| 2017-02-08 | Hillsdale | Illinois | TYSON FRESH MEATS, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was working and was exposed to exhaust from a cooking unit that had a malfunctioning ventilation system. He suffered respiratory irritation and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-08-31 | Hillsdale | Illinois | TYSON FRESH MEATS, INC. | Face | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While an employee was knocking cows, a captive bolt stunner that the employee was using struck the metal lift equipment. The captive bolt stunner recoiled striking the employee on the side of his face resulting in a zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture and facial trauma. | |||||
| 2016-06-27 | Hillsdale | New Jersey | Henkels & McCoy, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell into an excavation and broke his femur. | |||||
| 2016-03-19 | Hillsdale | Illinois | TYSON FRESH MEATS, INC. | Wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee conducting maintenance work was caught in the sprocket of a moving conveyor and fractured bones in his left wrist. | |||||
| 2015-09-02 | Hillsdale | Illinois | Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc, Tanning | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was handling hides to get them in the deflesher when the "gripper" jaws opened and shut on the employee's left pinky. The employee sustained a soft tissue amputation of the left pinky finger. | |||||