| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-14 | Roxana | Il | JT Thorpe and Son Inc | Wrist(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was abrasive blasting structural steel when their air supply hood caught on something causing the employee to lose their balance. As the employee reached to regain their balance, the abrasive nozzle crossed their arm causing a laceration/abrasion injury to their wrist. | |||||
| 2019-02-10 | Roxana | Illinois | GRP Mechanical Company, Inc. | Face | Explosion |
| At approximately 4:30 p.m. there was an explosion and fire while starting up a unit at a refinery. One employee was burned on the face. | |||||
| 2018-09-15 | Roxana | Illinois | MILLER INDUSTRIAL SERVICE TEAMS, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was vacuuming and washing a confined space hole when he suffered from carbon monoxide overexposure, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-03-31 | Roxana | Illinois | Safway Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was dismantling a scaffold system when a cable line supporting the counterweight for the scaffold broke. This caused the counterweight to suddenly drop and catch the employee's left thumb and index finger between the weight and a steel cross beam, resulting in the amputation of the thumb at the first knuckle and fracture of the index finger. | |||||
| 2017-06-07 | Roxana | Illinois | General Electric Water and Processing Technology | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee and a coworker were working on a reverse osmosis system, removing membranes from inside a metal pipe that was removed from the processing equipment. The coworker was pushing the membranes while the employee was attempting to catch them as they exited from the opposite end of the pipe. The employee's finger was then pinched and a portion was amputated between the outside surface of the membrane and the inside of a metal tube. | |||||
| 2016-04-13 | Roxana | Illinois | AECOM | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was helping to take a cable winch system down. The system had been used to pull a heat exchange bundle. The employee's hand was on a poly snatch block when the operator moved the cable. The employee's fingertip was caught between the cable and poly snatch block, resulting in a distal finger amputation. | |||||