| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-12 | Mount Sterling | Il | DOT FOODS, INC | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was standing in a warehouse next to a pallet, waiting for someone to get a pallet of product for him. A forklift struck the employee and crushed his leg. | |||||
| 2021-10-13 | Mount Sterling | Oh | Stephens Pipe and Steel, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On October 13, 2021, an employee was operating a wire draw machine. During the drawing operation, the employee was adding lubrication powder to the die area of the machine when the glove on their right hand was caught and pulled into the rotating spindle. The pinch point where the wire wrapped around the spindle caused a partial amputation of the employee's third digit and a severe laceration to the fourth. | |||||
| 2021-08-30 | Mount Sterling | Il | Global Metal Construction d.o.o. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| On August 30, 2021, an employee was unpacking and redistributing assembly materials. He used a scalpel to cut the banding on a bundle of vertically placed steel L-profiles. The L-profiles then fell over and onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to both legs. | |||||
| 2021-05-24 | Mount Sterling | Oh | Stephens Pipe & Steel, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was standing on the platform at the galvanizer machine holding onto the metal hand rail and observing the moving shovel/ladle for cleaning the galvanizer. The shovel/ladle struck the middle divider of the holding tank causing the shovel/ladle to move up and down roughly. As a result the employee's hand was struck-by the handle of the shovel/ladle and their fingertip was caught between the metal hand rail and the metal handle and amputated. | |||||
| 2021-03-27 | Mount Sterling | Il | DOT FOODS, INC | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating an enclosed pallet jack and stopped to scan a pallet. As the employee reached out to scan the pallet, the cord of the scanner hit the throttle of the pallet jack. The pallet jack lunged forward and pinched the employee's right leg against a doorway protection pole resulting in a lower leg fracture. | |||||
| 2020-09-24 | Mount Sterling | Oh | Nutrien Ag Solutions | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was loading liquid fertilizer from the safety rack onto a tank that was on the trailer of a truck. The truck moved and pinched the employee's leg between the safety rack and the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with two broken bones in the right leg, located 14 inches above the ankle. | |||||
| 2020-04-20 | Mount Sterling | Ohio | Wincup Holdings Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was operating the extruder for polystyrene rolls when a roll snapped. He was feeding the sheet through the rubber rollers that control the tension on the roll when the rolls grabbed his fingers, injuring his right middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2019-07-10 | Mount Sterling | Illinois | DOT FOODS, INC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was putting product away in a warehouse. While walking backwards he struck a stack of pallets, fell and sustained a broken ankle. | |||||
| 2019-02-11 | Mount Sterling | Illinois | Dot Foods, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure |
| An employee took a sweeper outside because the sweeper had caught on fire. Maintenance came outside with a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. The extinguisher chemicals flew into the employee's face and the employee swallowed some of it. The employee was hospitalized with difficulty breathing. | |||||
| 2018-07-06 | Mount Sterling | Illinois | Prairieland FS Inc | Ankle(s) | Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode |
| On July 6, 2018, an employee was stepping off of a sprayer that was being refueled when the employee stumbled and rolled an ankle. The employee's ankle fractured and required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-12-07 | Mount Sterling | Ohio | Stephens Pipe & Steel, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee fell approximately five feet from a shelf while retrieving a motor. The employee fractured his right wrist and his right hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-06-13 | Mount Sterling | Ohio | Showa Aluminum Corp of America | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee checking an electrical panel came into contact with a live wire and was electrocuted. | |||||
| 2015-05-30 | Mount Sterling | Ohio | Keihin Thermal Technology of America | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee suffered an amputation to the right-hand index finger and an injury to the left-hand middle finger when a light curtain failed to protect the point of operation from a press in the manufacturing operation. | |||||