Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-07-11 | Shorewood | Illinois | Southwest Mechanical | Leg(s) | Explosion |
An employee was troubleshooting an air conditioner. The discharge line exploded, and a piece of the copper line went into the employee's leg. | |||||
2020-03-06 | Shorewood | Illinois | Caliber Holdings Corporation dba Caliber Collision | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was using a sledgehammer to straighten out a piece of metal on a vehicle when a piece of metal broke off and hit him in the eye. | |||||
2019-02-02 | Shorewood | Illinois | Bob's Discount Furniture | Pelvic region | Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode |
An employee had been loading furniture into a customer's rented box truck. As the employee stepped down from the truck, they felt a pull/pain in the pelvic region. | |||||
2016-03-01 | Shorewood | Wisconsin | Exquisite Exteriors, LLC | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was hospitalized with a concussion after a lamp pole fixture hit him in the head during snow removal operations. | |||||
2015-07-17 | Shorewood | Illinois | Kimco Facility Services LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
While cleaning the kitchen area, an employee slipped on grease on the floor, fracturing his hip and requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
2015-04-03 | Shorewood | Illinois | Jacobson Warehouse Company, Inc. | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee attempted to stop a stand-up forklift with his foot. His leg got crushed between the forklift and a rack post, requiring hospitalization. |