DateCityStateEmployerBody PartEvent
2020-02-26CarlinvilleIllinoisHeritage HealthHeartMultiple types of overexertion involving outside sources
An employee arrived at work and started shoveling snow. Within minutes, the employee felt upper chest pain and went back inside to alert others. The employee was hospitalized for a heart attack and underwent surgery.
2018-05-25LinvilleNorth CaroliBryant Land & Development Industries, Inc.Multiple lower extremities locationsPedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
The injured employee was operating part of the paving machine near a roller machine. The roller was being repositioned when it lunged forward instead of reversing. It pinned the injured employee's left leg between the roller and the paver, severely lacerating the leg from the thigh to the top of the ankle.
2017-05-19FranklinvilleNorth CaroliU.S. Postal ServiceMultiple body partsContact with hot objects or substances
On Friday, May 19, 2017, at approximately 9:48am, an employee was driving her car on her rural delivery route when the car overheated. She parked the vehicle, got out, and attempted to raise the hood when hot antifreeze spewed out of the front grill and burned her from the waist down and on both wrists. She suffered second degree burns and was hospitalized.
2017-03-09CarlinvilleIllinoisSloan Implement Company, Inc.Multiple body partsCompressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was servicing a corn planter and became pinned underneath a tractor hitch while kneeling on the ground. The employee suffered a broken leg, bruised ribs and a bruised lung.
2015-08-01New BerlinvillePennsylvaniaBOYERTOWN FOUNDRY COMPANYMultiple body partsContact with hot objects or substances
On 08/01/2015, at 0700 a.m., an employee was removing chilled iron from a cupola moat when he sustained burns to his hands, arms, and face. The employee drove the bucket loader into the moat after water was applied to hot sand, which caused steam to burn the employee.