| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-26 | Homewood | Il | Brinker International, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was cooking food in a deep fryer. As the employee took the basket out of the fryer, he bumped a pan of hot grease that was sitting on the side of another fryer. Hot grease spilled onto the employee, resulting in second-degree burns on the right forearm and hand. | |||||
| 2020-09-05 | Homewood | Il | Walt's Food Centers | Knee(s) | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a loaded pallet jack. While exiting a trailer onto an elevated dock lift, momentum from the load caused the front wheels to go off the dock lift. The employee then jumped, or fell off, and sustained a bruised knee. | |||||
| 2020-07-15 | Homewood | Al | Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working in the cooler when their foot got caught in the floor chain that moves product throughout the cooler. The employee sustained crushing injuries to the right foot. | |||||
| 2019-04-29 | Homewood | Alabama | Allied Universal Security Services, LLC | Brain | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking into the guard shack, lost her footing and fell, hitting her head on a metal table. She lost consciousness and sustained a head injury. | |||||
| 2018-03-04 | Homewood | Illinois | Petco Animal Supplies Store# 1967 | Arm(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was helping to trim the nails of a large dog when it bit the employee's arm, breaking the skin. | |||||
| 2018-01-29 | Homewood | Alabama | Mayfield Ice Cream | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting, lowering |
| An employee suffered a possible hernia while stacking ice cream on a pallet, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-08-17 | Homewood | Alabama | Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was operating a pickup truck to deliver a special events trailer to a ball field. The employee dropped the trailer off and exited the pickup truck. The unmanned vehicle began to roll and the employee attempted to stop the rolling pickup truck. The employee's right leg was struck by the vehicle. The employee sustained crushing injuries and was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2017-08-07 | Homewood | Illinois | Kohl's Department Store | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over the leg of a clothing rack and fell, fracturing a shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-07-27 | Homewood | Alabama | Mayfield Ice Cream | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was tightening a fan motor belt. The belt was energized at the time. His left hand slipped and his fingers came into contact with the spinning fan blades, resulting in multiple lacerations to the left-hand fingers/fingertips. He was hospitalized and received stitches. | |||||
| 2015-03-10 | Homewood | Alabama | Twin Construction, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| On March 10, 2015, at approximately 10 a.m., an employee fell down a flight of stairs during work and injured his back. He fell approximately 10 feet from the second floor to the first and was taken to UAB Hospital. | |||||