| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-24 | Schaumburg | Il | Environmental Restoration L.L.C. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee and a co-worker were moving a forklift battery with a pallet jack down a ramp when the battery fell onto the employee's left leg. The employee suffered a fractured tibia and fibula. | |||||
| 2021-05-27 | Schaumburg | Il | CMS Nextech | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was servicing a rooftop AC unit. While descending the roof's fixed ladder, he slipped and the employee fell onto his right side. The employee suffered a displaced elbow fracture. | |||||
| 2020-05-19 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Sunstar Americas, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was trying to open the sealer bar on a piece of bagging equipment, which had closed in the down position due to low air pressure. The sealer bar closed on the employee's right index finger, causing a partial fingertip amputation (halfway down the nail, with no bone loss). | |||||
| 2020-02-13 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Northern Illinois Gas Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was loading a jackhammer attachment onto a trailer. The equipment slid from its wooden pallet onto his left middle finger. The finger was partially amputated. | |||||
| 2019-08-21 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Nation Pizza Products, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On August 21, 2019, a temporary employee was applying grated cheese to a pizza crust moving on a conveyor line to a plastic wrapping system. He was attempting to grab grated cheese that drops into a catch bin under the conveyor when his finger was caught in the chain and sprocket system, resulting in a finger amputation on his right hand. | |||||
| 2019-03-19 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Nation Pizza Products, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Two employees were loading cardboard into a baler. The overhead door was closed, but the baler did not read that it was closed properly. When the door was re-closed, it caught an employee's right hand, causing an amputation to the index fingertip/print. | |||||
| 2019-03-16 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Nation Pizza Products, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was installing a safety block in the dough press. The employee was attempting to insert a safety block into the press when the press came down while the employee's fingertip was between the block and the frame. The employee suffered a right middle fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-08-30 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Carmax, Inc. | Lumbar region | Overexertion and bodily reaction |
| An employee was changing a tire using a tire changer machine when he injured his lower back. | |||||
| 2018-06-24 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Victoria's Secret Stores, LLC | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee fell on a freshly mopped tile floor, suffering injuries to her left arm and knee. The muscle separated from the bone on the knee, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2018-01-08 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Gonnella Frozen Products, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was clearing dough off a sensor while standing on an elevated platform for a divider. As he was descending a stairway from the divider, he slipped and reached for the guardrail. The guardrail disconnected from the platform, and he fell to the ground, hitting his head. He suffered head trauma and brain bleeding. | |||||
| 2017-07-13 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Earle M. Jorgensen Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was operating a horizontal band saw when the blade amputated his right pinky, ring, and middle fingers. | |||||
| 2016-06-09 | Schaumburg | Illinois | KURIYAMA OF AMERICA, INC. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was positioning a pallet load on the forks of a reach truck when a coworker backed his reach truck into the employee's reach truck. The reach truck's outrigger ran over his left foot. | |||||
| 2016-03-12 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. dba Sweet Tomatoes | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was carrying a tray of dirty dishes when she slipped and fell backward, fracturing her left hip. | |||||
| 2016-03-03 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Titan Electric LLC | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was clearing a jam on a powder-actuated tool when the tool discharged. The actuating piston struck the employee's right palm, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2016-01-09 | Schaumburg | Illinois | DeZurik APCO Hilton | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was moving a valve body with a hoist from a CNC Machine to the side of the machine. The valve body slipped from the clamps that were holding it and hit the employee in the right leg between the knee and ankle. His leg broke. | |||||
| 2015-12-30 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Optumrx, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking through the parking garage when she slipped on a patch of ice and fell breaking her left hip. | |||||
| 2015-09-28 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Nation Pizza and Foods | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was servicing and troubleshooting an oven loader when the employee's right index finger got caught and amputated in the chain and sprocket. The chain and sprocket was not covered at the time. | |||||
| 2015-09-24 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Nordstrom | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell, hitting his head on the cabinet of the air conditioning unit he was working on. | |||||
| 2015-08-19 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Nation Pizza and Foods | Leg(s) | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
| During welding operations, an employee's right pant leg caught on fire, resulting in 1st and 2nd degree burns. FR-rated pants were not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-05-08 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Harvard Maintenance, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| An employee's back was injured while lifting a waste basket, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-05-05 | Schaumburg | Illinois | MERCURY PRODUCTS CORP. | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was setting up a punch press machine and relocated the feeder from the front to the back. The press was not de-energized at the time. The employee hit the feeder command by accident, and the part charged out of the machine and sliced his left bicep. | |||||
| 2015-04-17 | Schaumburg | Illinois | CONCRETE STRATEGIES LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was removing concrete forms and loading them onto a flatbed tractor trailer when his left index finger got caught in the chain rigging that was in use to move the forms. The load shifted and amputated his left index finger between the bottom of the finger nail and the top of the knuckle. | |||||
| 2015-01-03 | Schaumburg | Illinois | Costco Wholesale Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld |
| Employee lost his nail, skin, and flesh from the tip of his right ring finger while closing the cardboard bailer door. | |||||