| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-01 | Urbana | Oh | Heritage Cooperative, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee had just cleared a clog in a drag and re-energized the motor. The employee asked another employee at the control panel to turn on the drag. When that happened, the motor malfunctioned causing the chain and pulley system to shift, striking the employee and throwing them over the guard rail to the ground below. The employee sustained a broken ankle and shoulder injury. | |||||
| 2021-09-22 | Urbana | Il | The Carle Foundation Hospital | Pelvis | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| On September 22, 2021, an employee was pulling a box of pillows across the floor when they tripped and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis. | |||||
| 2021-09-06 | Urbana | Oh | The Kroger Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cutting bone-in ribeyes on a meat saw. A piece of meat twisted and pulled his right hand into the saw, which amputated the tip of the thumb and lacerated the index finger. | |||||
| 2021-07-13 | Urbana | Oh | Colepak, Inc. | Upper extremities | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee attempted to get a part out of a machine when their arm got caught in the machine, resulting in a crushing injury including a partially severed muscle and an injured tendon that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-02-03 | Urbana | Oh | American Pan | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was setting up a crimper machine when he sustained the amputation of two fingers. | |||||
| 2021-02-02 | Urbana | Oh | United States Postal Service | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level |
| An employee fell on ice while delivering mail. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left tibia. | |||||
| 2020-09-02 | Urbana | Il | UNFI Specialty Distribution Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| On 9/02/2020, at 12:10 PM, an employee was picking a case in an aisle behind a high-lift forklift. The forklift backed up and caught the employee against the rack. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs. | |||||
| 2020-07-08 | Urbana | Illinois | Champaign Asphalt Company, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On July 8, 2020, an employee began cramping and vomiting at the end of a shift doing concrete work. He was hospitalized, suffering from heat stress. | |||||
| 2020-05-22 | Urbana | Illinois | Carle Foundation Hospital | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| On May 22, 2020, at approximately 12:00 p.m., an employee was working in a lab drive-through shed when she sprayed a wasp with wasp spray. The wasp started to chase her, so she ran. While running, she tripped and fell in the parking lot, fracturing both wrists. | |||||
| 2020-05-20 | Urbana | Illinois | Cunningham Children's Home Circle Academy Urbana | Fingertip(s) | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown |
| On May 20, 2020, at approximately 7:15 PM, an employee was removing an aggressive client to a seclusion room when the client kicked the seclusion room door. The door slammed on the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation of her right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-04-22 | Urbana | Illinois | United Natural Foods, Inc | Upper arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On April 22, 2020, an employee was attempting to climb into a jockey truck when the employee reached for the grab bar and missed, causing a loss of balance. The employee fell backwards, striking the elbow on the jockey's steel platform and resulting in a left elbow laceration, torn bicep, and torn tricep, which required stitches, surgical muscle repair, and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2020-04-04 | Urbana | Illinois | CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME OF URBANA, ILLINOIS | Fingertip(s) | Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. |
| At about 1:00 p.m. on April 4, 2020, an employee was removing a patient to a seclusion room. The patient kicked a door, which slammed on the employee's fingers. The employee's right middle and ring fingertips were amputated. | |||||
| 2019-07-31 | Urbana | Ohio | Link Construction Group | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was helping to lift a C-channel cross member into place when the C-bolt channel clip amputated the employee's fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-07-08 | Urbana | Illinois | Hayward Baker, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| At about 11:45 a.m. on July 8, 2019, an employee was working with a crane operator to flip a sheet of steel piling with two shakeout hooks hung from the crane. While the sheet of piling was being lifted, a hook became dislodged and struck the employee in the right leg, breaking the tibia. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-06-27 | Urbana | Illinois | GUARDIAN WEST A DIVISION OF FLEX-N-GATE | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was helping a flatbed semi driver receive a load. The employee had cut banding on 3 rolled coils of metal. The coils shifted, causing one of them to fall onto the employee. The employee's right leg had to be surgically removed below the knee. The employee also suffered fractures to the left ankle and right wrist. | |||||
| 2019-03-06 | Urbana | Illinois | Growmark, Inc. | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On March 6, 2019, an employee was working from the third or fourth step of a ladder, installing steel on a horse barn. The employee slipped and fell to the ground, suffering a broken wrist and arm, and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-28 | Urbana | Illinois | Blager Concrete Company | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| On July 28, 2018, a concrete truck driver was climbing the ladder attached to his truck when he fell to the ground, breaking his ribs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-06-28 | Urbana | Ohio | Shaffer Manufacturing | Knee(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The employee was sitting at the machine lowering the bowl on a spindle while welding areas of the mixer bowl. The lip of the mixer bowl became trapped on top of his knee, pushing his foot (which was operating a speed pedal) downward and trapping his lower leg. The employee required assistance to remove him from the machine. The employee sustained a right knee sprain. | |||||
| 2018-04-02 | Urbana | Illinois | Housing Authority of Champaign County- Steer Place | Brain | Fall on same level |
| A maintenance employee was walking when he fell on some ice and struck his head, suffering swelling and bleeding that required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-06-06 | Urbana | Illinois | A & R Mechanical Contractors, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was hospitalized for possible dehydration. | |||||
| 2017-02-10 | Urbana | Ohio | Solvaira Specialties | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was attempting to close a dock door while sitting on a forklift. He had backed his forklift so that the rear right wheel was on a loading dock leveler that was still attached to a trailer approved for release. When the trailer was moved, the forklift fell over and the employee's hand was pinned between the ground and upper overhead carriage. He suffered broken bones in the thumb and palm area. | |||||
| 2016-09-24 | Urbana | Illinois | Clearly Windows | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway |
| An employee was washing windows on a hospital overpass when he was struck by a pick-up truck travelling approximately 55 mph. | |||||
| 2016-06-23 | Urbana | Illinois | Carle Foundation Hospital | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was in the bathroom cleaning when she slipped and fell on the bathroom floor fracturing her left patella. | |||||
| 2016-01-13 | Urbana | Illinois | FLEX-N-GATE CORPORATION | Thigh(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was walking near a forklift that was moving a 500-pound rack used for plating automotive parts. The load shifted and struck the employee, breaking the employee's right femur and causing lower back and hip injuries. | |||||
| 2015-09-09 | Urbana | Illinois | Stark Excavating, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
| An employee preparing to move backhoe forks fractured his right femur when part of the forks fell on his leg. He also lacerated his right ring finger. | |||||
| 2015-07-26 | Urbana | Ohio | Johnson Welding Products | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was moving a metal drum on a pallet when the employee's finger got pinched under the drum edge, amputating the left pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-05-20 | Urbana | Illinois | CORE CONSTRUCTION | Wrist(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee fell through a hole in the floor to the decking 14 feet below, breaking both wrists. | |||||
| 2015-03-02 | Urbana | Ohio | Johnson Welded Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was placing plugs into tank bushings. The tester operator actuated the test sequence, causing the safety door to close while the employee's hand was in the door. The employee's left ring finger was amputated halfway down to the fingernail. | |||||
| 2015-02-12 | Urbana | Illinois | CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL | Arm(s) | Fall on same level |
| In the Forum Circle Drive, an employee fell onto the concrete street and sustained injury to their head and a fractured right arm. | |||||