| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-13 | Mattoon | Il | Rural King Holding Co. | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| On May 13, 2021, at approximately 8:00 PM, an employee was operating a stand-up forklift and was backing away and turning from a pallet. The forklift struck a steel structural pole and the employee sustained compound fractures to the left tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2020-09-14 | Mattoon | Il | Mars Petcare US Cominc | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On 9/14/2020, at approximately 7:10 a.m., a maintenance technician was troubleshooting a date coder conveyor on a packaging line when his arm became entangled in a roller on the underside of the conveyor belt resulting in hospitalization for a fractured ulna and radius. | |||||
| 2019-07-20 | Mattoon | Illinois | NCI Group, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was manually moving a 55-gallon drum of caulking from a wood pallet to a dolly. The drum slipped back into its original position, pinching his finger against an adjacent drum. The injury resulted in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-05-31 | Mattoon | Wisconsin | Wisconsin Veneer & Plywood, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was catching veneer material off a moving table. When the table moved upwards and then down, the employee's pinky fingertip was caught under the tabletop, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-01-08 | Mattoon | Illinois | Conagra Brands, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| At about 9:35 a.m. on January 8, 2019, an employee was clearing a jam in the bagel slicing area on a production line. She came into contact with a moving pressure conveyor and her left index fingertip was amputated. The bagel slicing area was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-04-20 | Mattoon | Illinois | Rural King Holding Co. | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While checking a conveyor, an employee was caught in the moving parts of the conveyor and suffered compound fractures and lacerations to the left forearm. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-03-14 | Mattoon | Illinois | LSC Communications | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing a piece of paper that was stuck in an offset press when the employee's finger was pinched in the rotating rollers, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2017-05-08 | Mattoon | Illinois | MERVIS INDUSTRIES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| On May 8, 2017, around 11:15 a.m., an employee had just finished cutting a 6-foot piece of aluminum with an alligator shear when a piece of the metal spun into the air and amputated the first knuckle of his left ring finger. | |||||
| 2016-09-21 | Mattoon | Illinois | RR Donnelley | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On September 21, 2016, around 3:30 a.m., an employee was changing out a 1,400-pound seal-in roller with a hoist when the roller rolled on to his left thumb tip. The thumb tip had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2016-09-16 | Mattoon | Illinois | Pinnacle Foods Group LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On September 16, 2016, around 6:00 p.m., an employee was moving away from an area where she had been adjusting a rail to align boxes to the box stop air cylinder when the actuating cylinder of the conveyor belt pinched her left middle finger. Her fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-07-27 | Mattoon | Illinois | US Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee became disoriented while delivering mail and suffered leg cramping. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2016-07-20 | Mattoon | Illinois | Pinnacle Foods Group LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| While operating a divider machine, an employee attempted to clear a dough jam and suffered a left index finger amputation above the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-01-12 | Mattoon | Illinois | RR Donnelley | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning and performing light maintenance on a bindery when his right index finger got caught in a chain and sprocket, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-12-06 | Mattoon | Illinois | R.R. DONNELLY | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
| An employee was hospitalized on December 6, 2015, to have work-related hernia surgery. | |||||
| 2015-11-06 | Mattoon | Illinois | NCI Group, Inc | Forearm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's left forearm got caught in a chain drive near the laminator. | |||||