Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-16 | Robinson | Il | Summit Refrigeration Group | Head, neck, and trunk | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
At about 2:30 p.m. on November 16, 2021, an employee was checking the sight glass for a liquid level on an ammonia refrigeration system. The sight glass broke, and liquid ammonia sprayed out of the opening onto the employee's face, chest, and throat area, resulting in chemical burns. | |||||
2021-09-24 | Robinson | Il | Hershey Chocolate & Confectionery Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
On 09/24/2021, at approximately 4:30 PM, three employees were cleaning a toffee cooker. The toffee cooker consists of an upper plate and a lower plate that are raised and lowered to separate the cooker. The toffee cooker was locked out/tagged out. Once the toffee cooker was cleaned, the gasket was installed and it was ready to be closed up. Lockout/tagout was removed. The injured employee reached to adjust the seal as the lower piece come up into place and their right little finger got caught be | |||||
2021-09-07 | Robinson | Il | CT Enterprises Inc | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking down a vacant hallway when they fell on the wet floor and fractured their hip. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-03-29 | Robinson | Il | TBM Building Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee was filling a towel dispenser in a warehouse restroom. The restroom door closed on the employee's left hand, causing an amputation of the little finger. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-03-03 | Robinson | Il | Hydrochem LLC DBA HydroChemPSC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was attaching a 90-degree elbow to the back of a vacuum truck when they were caught between the 90-degree elbow and a roll-off box, resulting in abdominal injuries. | |||||
2021-02-02 | Robinson | Tx | PALS Home Health | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking down the hallway to prepare medication when she slipped and fell on the floor, resulting in a twisted ankle. | |||||
2018-05-26 | Robinsonville | Mississippi | Schulz Xtruded Products | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
An employee was cleaning around an internal diameter blasting machine before the end of his shift. The arm of the in-feed loading table had a steel pipe staged on it; the arm lowered, causing the pipe to roll into the employee and pin him between itself and another pipe. He sustained contusions around his midsection. | |||||
2017-02-23 | Robinson | Illinois | MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY, LLC | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
On 2/23/17, at approximately 2:50 PM CST an employee was standing on a standard gauge rail track operating a railcar's handbrake apparatus when the employee lost his footing/slipped and fell on his hip fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-01-20 | Robinsonville | Mississippi | Schulz Xtruded Products | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was loading a 700- to 800-pound steel billet into a furnace when the billet became misaligned on the loading platform. As he attempted to straighten the billet with a pry bar, it rolled off the loading platform and onto his left foot, breaking bones and crushing toes. | |||||
2016-05-24 | Robinsonville | Mississippi | Westgate Resorts | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was using a table saw to cut some weed wacker cord when the cord became tangled and pulled the employee's left-hand fingers into the blade. Two of the employee's fingers were completely amputated, and one was partially amputated. |