| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-03 | Saint Charles | Mo | TNT CRUST, LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was separating dough on a retractable conveyor belt when his arm got caught in the belt. He sustained lacerated tendons in the arm that required surgery. | |||||
| 2021-10-05 | Saint Charles | Il | Pactiv LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's hand became caught in a press machine resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2021-10-05 | Saint Charles | Mo | BPG Inspection LLC | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was setting up a radon test in a vacant home. She fell on a step, her left side striking the floor. She suffered a hip injury and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-09-09 | Saint Charles | Il | Woodmark LLC | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| On September 9, 2021, an employee was taping house wrap onto the outside of a two-story residential home. The employee fell 15 feet from a ladder and sustained injury to their head and back. | |||||
| 2021-08-26 | Saint Charles | Mo | TNT CRUST, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On August 26, 2021, an employee was working on the dough production line and suffered the partial amputation of their finger while clearing dough from the opening. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-05-18 | Saint Charles | Il | Thieme Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On May 18, 2021, an employee was servicing a chiller cooling unit. The employee had removed a side cover from the unit to add water when the fan on top of the unit turned on and pulled in his right hand. He suffered an index finger amputation, a possible amputation of the thumb, and a laceration to the middle finger. | |||||
| 2021-03-29 | Saint Charles | Mo | RX SYSTEMS INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was adjusting a roller in a press. Her right hand was pulled in and crushed between a rubber tent sleeve roller and another, stainless steel roller. She suffered cuts, contusions, and fractures to the middle, ring, and little fingers and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-02-09 | Saint Charles | Il | R.R. DONNELLEY | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
| On February 9, 2021, a temporary employee struck an R.R. Donnelley employee with his fist causing him to fall and hit his head on a metal cabinet. The employee was hospitalized for a concussion. | |||||
| 2021-01-11 | Saint Charles | Il | Lakeshore Recycling Systems, LLC | Skull | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| At 1:24 p.m. on January 11, 2021, an employee was assisting with curbside Christmas tree pickup when he slipped on ice and fell backward, striking the back of his head on the side of the truck and then on the ground. The employee suffered a left parietal non-displaced skull fracture. | |||||
| 2020-10-06 | Saint Charles | Mo | Trinity Products | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
| An employee was working on pipe welds. He was walking between two steel pipes when the pipes began to roll. His foot was caught between the two pipes resulting in a dislocated toe and a broken toe. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-10-01 | Saint Charles | Mo | Cracker Barrel | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped and fell on the wet floor in the kitchen, breaking his hip. He was hospitalized and required surgery. | |||||
| 2020-09-03 | Saint Charles | Mo | Marten Transport | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee tripped while stepping down from his truck. He fell to the cement ground and hit his head, suffering a concussion. | |||||
| 2020-07-10 | Saint Charles | Missouri | BUDROVICH | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| Substrate beneath a track hoe gave way and the machine lunged forward. The bucket struck an employee who was standing in the trench box. The employee was hospitalized for a contusion on their back. | |||||
| 2020-07-06 | Saint Charles | Missouri | TNT CRUST, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning out pieces of dough from a machine and amputated her fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-06-15 | Saint Charles | Missouri | Joe Nunn's Lawn Maintenance | Multiple trunk locations | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was mowing a terrace lawn on a zero-turn mower when the mower got close to a hill and flipped sideways. The employee suffered a broken hip/pelvis. | |||||
| 2020-05-21 | Saint Charles | Missouri | NIKE AIRMI | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to remove a TPU sheet from a TPU machine when her thumb was caught between two rollers, resulting in a thumb tip amputation. | |||||
| 2020-05-07 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. | Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was prepping a piggyback air emergency spring brake chamber to later be placed on a truck in need on a service call. To cage the spring and remove hazardous energy from the internals of the part, he supplied air pressure to compress the spring and then placed the caging bolt in the hole on the end to retain the spring. When his finger was in the pinch point placing the nut on the caging bolt, the chamber lost air and actuated the spring with the bolt in it. His finger was then caug | |||||
| 2020-02-18 | Saint Charles | Missouri | NATIONAL SERVICE SOLUTIONS US, LLC | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
| Two employees were pushing a cart when one of them suffered a hernia. | |||||
| 2019-09-20 | Saint Charles | Illinois | thieme corporation | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a bandsaw to cut out foam for packaging. The sawblade came into contact with the employee's left index finger, amputating the tip. | |||||
| 2019-09-16 | Saint Charles | Missouri | FEDEX | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was adjusting the height of a hydraulic press table to insert the positioning pin when the hydraulic press came down and crushed the employee's hand between the pin and press table. The employee suffered a fractured left hand requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-08-12 | Saint Charles | Missouri | VI-JON, INC | Ankle(s) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| An employee was driving a standup forklift down the main aisle to the break room for lunch. When the employee approached the area where the empty forklifts are staged, he turned the corner and hit a parked forklift. His foot was pinned between the two lifts. He sustained a fractured ankle and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-08-02 | Saint Charles | Missouri | NATIONAL CART COMPANY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was notching metal material on a notcher machine and amputated the right middle finger at the first joint. | |||||
| 2019-07-19 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Blue Goose Supermarket Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cleaning and sharpening a meat slicer blade when it contacted the employee's right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The meat slicer was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-07-15 | Saint Charles | Missouri | RX SYSTEMS INC. | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| At approximately 1:00 a.m., on 7/15/2019, a machine operator was performing a maintenance procedure on a board press. The operator was connecting a wire when a cog (wheel) grabbed her right hand and damaged the tissue between the thumb and index finger and knuckles. | |||||
| 2019-07-10 | Saint Charles | Missouri | American Railcar Industries | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
| 2019-07-09 | Saint Charles | Missouri | MILLSTONE WEBER | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee suffered dehydration and possible kidney failure and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-06-21 | Saint Charles | Missouri | NPSG GLOBAL | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| A temporary worker was walking in a warehouse and was struck by a forklift. The forklift ran over his left foot resulting in amputation of two toes. | |||||
| 2019-04-05 | Saint Charles | Missouri | FEDEX FREIGHT | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was opening a trailer door when freight that was against the door amputated his left middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-07-26 | Saint Charles | Missouri | NATIONAL CART COMPANY | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's right hand was caught in the point of operation of a CNC tube bender. The employee suffered amputations to the right ring and little fingers. | |||||
| 2018-03-06 | Saint Charles | Missouri | NIKE AIR MANUFACTURING INNOVATION | Ankle(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was sitting on a thermoforming machine's exit tray when it collapsed and she fell to the floor, breaking her ankle. | |||||
| 2017-09-30 | Saint Charles | Illinois | St Charles Pontiac | Ankle(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was hand drying cars after they came out of a car wash. The employee was walking backward close to the vehicle before it left the conveyor when his foot was caught between the moving conveyor chain and the side rail. His Achilles tendon tore and later became infected, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-09-20 | Saint Charles | Missouri | THE BOEING COMPANY | BODY SYSTEMS | Vehicle or machinery fire |
| An employee was witnessing a vehicle test when a lithium-ion battery caught on fire. The employee inhaled smoke from the fire and chemical fumes from the halon extinguisher used to put out the fire. | |||||
| 2017-06-28 | Saint Charles | Missouri | icon Mechanical Construction and Engineering LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was using a propane welding machine, set at ground level, while standing in a scissor lift inside an empty room under construction when the employee experienced headaches, dizziness, nausea, and fatigue due to carbon monoxide exposure. These symptoms developed slowly over approximately five hours. | |||||
| 2017-05-30 | Saint Charles | Missouri | Orkin Pest Control | Arm(s) | Struck by animal, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inspecting the perimeter of a condominium for termites when a large dog jumped from a condo balcony onto the employee. He sustained multiple fractures to his arm and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-05-30 | Saint Charles | Missouri | Orkin Pest Control | Arm(s) | Struck by animal, n.e.c. |
| An employee was inspecting the perimeter of a condominium when a large dog jumped onto the worker from the balcony. The employee's arm was fractured in multiple places. | |||||
| 2017-04-10 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Mendel Plumbing & Heating, Inc | Multiple trunk locations | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
| On April 10, 2017, at approximately 11:15 a.m., an employee was performing maintenance on a rooftop HVAC unit when he fell 19 feet through a skylight to the ground. A personal fall arrest system was not worn at the time of the incident. The employee was hospitalized with severe internal injuries such as a lacerated liver, punctured lung and head trauma. | |||||
| 2016-10-22 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Smithfield Foods, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On October 22, 2016, an employee was pushing a stick cart. The employee had his left hand on top of the stick cart when he hit another stick cart. The wooden sticks came towards his hand amputating the distal part of his left middle finger. | |||||
| 2016-10-21 | Saint Charles | Illinois | WORK AREA PROTECTION CORP. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee suffered right index, middle, and ring finger amputations while cleaning a dust collector. | |||||
| 2016-06-25 | Saint Charles | Missouri | Nike IHM, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While attempting to feel the line in an extrusion line winder reel, an employee's hand was pulled into the machine, causing hand bruising and swelling. | |||||
| 2016-06-17 | Saint Charles | Missouri | FEDEX FREIGHT | Ear(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was attempting to install a load beam inside a trailer to support the freight when the freight fell off and struck him, amputating his left ear and lacerating his back. He was hospitalized and required surgery. | |||||
| 2016-04-15 | Saint Charles | Missouri | AMERISTAR CASINO RESORT SPA | Pelvis | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| The injured employee had just completed her break and was in the process of returning to work. The employee was walking towards the door when another employee walked through the door startling the injured employee. The injured employee fell backwards and fractured her pelvis. | |||||
| 2016-03-16 | Saint Charles | Illinois | WORK AREA PROTECTION CORP. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On or about March 16, 2016, at approximately 4:00 p.m., an employee was trying to clear a jam on a conveyor that was transporting cones on molds when an automated oven door came down on his hand and pinched his right middle finger, amputating the nail and fingertip. The equipment was not locked out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2016-03-09 | Saint Charles | Missouri | RX SYSTEMS, INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was loading paper into a printing press when the press did not move the paper along as designed. The employee jogged the machine and turned it off and then on, attempting to get the paper to move along. The employee's left index finger was caught in the machine, amputating the first digit of the finger. | |||||
| 2015-11-16 | Saint Charles | Missouri | Coca-Cola Enterprises | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was cleaning out her desk in preparation for her department's relocation. She kneeled on the corner of her desk to reach the bookshelf located above. The corner where she was kneeling broke, and she hit her head on the corner of the desk. She was hospitalized with a head laceration and back injury. | |||||
| 2015-10-27 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Bison Gear & Engineering Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On or about 8:15 a.m. on October 27, 2015, an employee was operating a com cutter machine when he incurred an amputation to the tip of his left ring finger. The machine rotates, smooths and cuts commutators that are a component of DC motors. | |||||
| 2015-10-19 | Saint Charles | Missouri | BLUE GRASS LAWN CARE OF ST. LOUIS, LLC | Pelvis | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was mowing the grass when the lawn mower rolled over and crushed his pelvis. | |||||
| 2015-07-15 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Costco Wholesale Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee working from a pallet mounted on a forklift suffered a fingertip amputation when his finger was caught in the descending forklift mast. | |||||
| 2015-06-04 | Saint Charles | Missouri | National Cart Co., Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On 6/4/2015, at approximately 12:30 a.m., an employee was operating a sheet metal break press and attempting to bend a sheet metal part. He was performing a two-hand operation, holding one piece of metal with both hands. His right hand was on top of the metal, and his pinky fingertip was crushed by the ram as it lowered. There was no guard in place at the time. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2015-05-08 | Saint Charles | Missouri | National Cart Co., Inc. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking behind a forklift operator. The forklift operator struck the employee, knocked him down, and ran over his foot. | |||||
| 2015-03-31 | Saint Charles | Illinois | ALL-STATES INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating an injection molding press machine. The injured employee pulled a part out of the press through the door. The door jammed when the injured employee tried to close it, so the employee reached inside the machine to clear the jam. The employee's hand got caught by a machine part; the employee's thumb tip, including part of the thumbnail, was amputated. | |||||
| 2015-03-21 | Saint Charles | Illinois | Wise Plastics Technologies, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Contact with objects and equipment |
| On March 21, 2015, an employee suffered an amputation from a milling machine. | |||||
| 2015-01-12 | Saint Charles | Missouri | McBride and Son Contracting Co. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| A worker fell approximately 9 feet from a scaffold platform to the ground below sustaining a compound fracture to the jaw and a punctured liver. The scaffold plank bridged over the apartment breezeway and was supported by two walls that were approximately 6 feet apart. The platform was used in setting the rafter trusses. | |||||