Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-07-06 | Marengo | Illinois | Charter Communications, Inc. | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
An employee was performing door-to-door sales. While walking between sales visits, the employee tripped on an uneven sidewalk/driveway slab of concrete and fell to the ground, striking his left knee area and suffering bone fractures. | |||||
2019-05-16 | Marengo | Ohio | RUMPKE WASTE & RECYCLING SERVICES | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was loading a rear load container to dump into the back of a garbage truck when the container shifted and smashed the employee's fingers. The employee fractured multiple fingers and received a severe laceration to the middle finger. | |||||
2017-02-20 | Marengo | Illinois | Thomson Linear, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a buffer machine when his right hand was caught between the die and the rollers resulting in a crushing injury to the ring and pinky fingers. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-08-04 | Marengo | Illinois | Commonwealth Edison Company | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
On Thursday, August 4, 2016, at 11:30 a.m., an employee was working outside, marking a new engineered path with flags for an underground service drop from the electrical pole to a relocated electric meter at a new residential construction site. As the employee was walking toward the electrical pole, the adjacent ground grading changed; it was partially graded and partially undisturbed natural landscape, creating an uneven walking surface. Subsequently, the employee's right ankle rolled and she f | |||||
2015-07-27 | Marengo | Illinois | Arnold Magnetic Technologies, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On or about July 27, 2015 at approximately 9:15 p.m., a maintenance employee experienced shooting pain in the left arm, chest, and back, as well as heart palpitations, while installing a pump with two coworkers. His left hand was seizing up and he couldn't move it. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration and heat stress. |