Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-23 | Maywood | Il | Thyssenkrupp Elevator Corp | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was coming off a snow covered rooftop onto a ship stair/ladder to go into a building when they slipped and fell approximately 18 feet from the ship stair/ladder to the ground. The fall resulted in a broken leg requiring surgery. | |||||
2020-05-26 | Maywood | Illinois | Loyola University Medical Center | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was walking out of a patient room when her shoe caught the floor, causing her to lose her balance and strike a chair's wooden arm. She suffered three broken ribs. | |||||
2020-04-09 | Maywood | Illinois | White Castle System Inc | Nonclassifiable | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was cleaning a fryer when a bucket spilled excess hot oil onto his body, burning him. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-23 | Maywood | Illinois | Loyola University Medical Center | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was crossing a street on campus when the employee tripped over the base of a pedestrian crossing sign and broke a leg on the ground. | |||||
2019-01-10 | Maywood | New Jersey | JP PATTI COMPANY, INC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a fixed ladder accessing the roof and sustained broken ribs, lacerations, and contusions. | |||||
2018-09-20 | Maywood | Illinois | Loyola University Medical Center | Hip(s) | Fall while sitting |
An employee was sitting in a chair when she dropped an item on the floor. She reached for the item and the chair rolled forward, causing her to fall and land on her right hip. She suffered a hip fracture. | |||||
2018-05-28 | Maywood | Illinois | Commonwealth Edison Company, dba ComEd | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was in an underground electrical vault, splicing a damaged electrical cable. A different 12-kilovolt cable (not the one being repaired) had an arc fault. The arc flash caused first-degree burns to the employee's face and second-degree burns to both hands. | |||||
2018-04-08 | Maywood | Nebraska | Buffalo Plains Genetics, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Struck by animal |
An employee was attempting to place a harness on a boar when she was pinned between the boar and a crate, tearing ligaments and tendons in her lower left leg. | |||||
2017-03-02 | Maywood | Illinois | American Recycling and Disposal, Inc. | Hip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was moving a truck tire out of the street after it had fallen off of his truck. The tire fell onto the employee breaking his hip. | |||||
2017-02-28 | Maywood | Illinois | Loyola University Medical Center | Hip(s) | Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional |
An employee was hospitalized for a hip fracture after breaking up an altercation between two hospital visitors. | |||||
2017-02-23 | Maywood | Illinois | Cintas Corporation | Skull | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was loading a box truck when he fell from the lift gate of the truck and struck his head on the ground, fracturing his skull. | |||||
2017-02-06 | Maywood | Illinois | Loyola University Medical Center | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was replacing gears on a machine when the shaft moved during the lift and caught his left thumb, amputating the tip. The machine was locked out at the time. |