Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-22 | Hodgkins | Il | Rosaty Packaging Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On October 22, 2021, at 10:30 a.m., an employee was trying to unjam a vacuum seal machine and suffered deep lacerations to the right index and middle fingers. | |||||
2021-05-21 | Hodgkins | Il | United Parcel Service, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was trying to readjust a pin for a chassis in a container box. The 53-foot container dropped on his left pinky finger, crushing it and causing a partial amputation at the second knuckle. | |||||
2021-05-05 | Hodgkins | Il | UPS | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking in the facility, slipped on a piece of debris on the floor, and fell. The employee sustained a back injury. | |||||
2020-04-16 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Tara International L.P. | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was baling cardboard when he fainted and hit his head on the floor. He was hospitalized with a severe head injury. | |||||
2020-02-03 | Hodgkins | Illinois | UPS | Cheek(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped over a bollard on ground level while walking and suffered a facial injury to the right cheek. | |||||
2019-06-11 | Hodgkins | Illinois | United Parcel Service, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was loading packages inside a trailer. The employee was standing between the boxes and the edge of the conveyor when the conveyor moved forward and pinned the employee against the boxes. The employee suffered a punctured lung. | |||||
2018-06-30 | Hodgkins | Illinois | UPS HODGKINS | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
At about 1:45 a.m. on June 30, 2018, an employee (who had been loading packages into a trailer in extreme heat) was found slumped over. The employee was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with heat stress illness. | |||||
2018-06-10 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Sams Club | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
On June 10, 2018, an employee sustained an amputation to the right ring finger when using a meat cutting band saw. | |||||
2018-05-29 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Wm Bolthouse Farms, Inc. | Lumbar region | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was wrapping a pallet by hand when he fell and fractured his lower back. | |||||
2018-02-18 | Hodgkins | Illinois | ComEd | Nonclassifiable | Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system |
Two employees were installing a new arm on a 200 foot power pole in a 295-foot aerial lift. The lift shifted and the employees fell out of the basket. The employees were using fall protection and suffered traumatic injuries from the fall protection equipment. | |||||
2018-01-31 | Hodgkins | Illinois | United Parcel Service, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing down a ladder when he missed a rung and fell backward. He hit the floor and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-01-22 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Menard, Inc | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was stocking the upper shelves in a store while riding in an order selector/platform lift. The employee fell from the lift and suffered a concussion. | |||||
2017-07-27 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Wm. Bolthouse Farms | Nonclassifiable | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
An employee was driving a powered industrial vehicle and struck a wall resulting in an amputation injury. | |||||
2017-07-27 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Fresh Logistics | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
While driving a standup forklift, an employee's left foot was pinned and injured between the forklift and a concrete bollard. | |||||
2017-03-28 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Arro Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On March 25, 2017, at approximately 2:30 a.m., an employee was cleaning off the sealers on the vertical bagger machine when the machine actuated and crushed the employee's finger between two sealers resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
2017-03-16 | Hodgkins | Illinois | UPS | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee suffered a pinky fingertip amputation while retracting the parcel chute that delivers packages into the trailers. | |||||
2016-08-13 | Hodgkins | Illinois | DPI DEDICATED LOGISTICS, INC. | Wrist(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
An employee struck a yellow post while attempting to make a U-turn in the parking lot, dislocating and fracturing the right wrist. | |||||
2015-07-13 | Hodgkins | Illinois | Dedicated Logistics | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee, pulling a tray of dry goods out of the rear of his truck, lost his balance and fell from the truck. The employee sustained a closed head injury. |