| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-13 | Vandalia | Oh | Energizer Holdings, Inc. | Heel(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was driving to a charging station in a stand-up forklift. The forklift slid in oil, and the employee's left foot was caught between the forklift and the charging station. His heel was broken and lacerated. | |||||
| 2020-10-06 | Vandalia | Oh | Energizer Holdings, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| A maintenance technician was checking a newly installed label machine when the machine turned on and the collar and cylinder pinched and amputated his right ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-06-30 | Vandalia | Illinois | Medline Industries Inc | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee stood up to reach for material at a workstation and lost balance, falling to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a left hip fracture. | |||||
| 2020-05-20 | Vandalia | Ohio | American Airlines, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was going from the bag room to the main building when an overhead door started closing on her. She rushed to get through and slipped on the sandy floor, breaking her ankle. | |||||
| 2020-03-30 | Vandalia | Ohio | Energizer Holdings | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a machine. Moving parts inside the machine caused amputations to two of the employee's fingers. | |||||
| 2019-07-19 | Vandalia | Ohio | Builders FirstSource, LLC | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was going to hammer protruding nails into a wall in preparation to take down shelving. The nails were more than 10 feet above the ground. The employee was standing on a wooden pallet which was raised on the forks of a forklift when the pallet failed. The employee lost balance and fell more than 10 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a broken left ankle. | |||||
| 2019-06-17 | Vandalia | Ohio | Dematic Corp. | Face | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| On June 17, 2019, an employee was painting on an elevated platform when the power went out. The employee fell 10 feet 6 inches to the floor and was injured. The employee was hospitalized for facial fractures. | |||||
| 2019-05-02 | Vandalia | Ohio | FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unloading a van using a non-energized unloading device. While lifting, the employee's finger got caught in a pinch point on the unloading device resulting in a partial finger amputation. | |||||
| 2019-02-24 | Vandalia | Ohio | HERAEUS PRECIOUS METALS NORTH AMERICA DAYCHEM LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
| On February 24, 2019, while adding a chemical to a 300-gallon reactor, an employee was exposed to trifluoromethanesulfonate ester and had an allergic reaction. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-01-12 | Vandalia | Ohio | DHL Supply Chain | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped and fell on ice in the parking lot, breaking the right ankle. | |||||
| 2017-10-10 | Vandalia | Ohio | Independent Can Company, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to clear a jam from a press machine when the press came down and amputated part of the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Vandalia | Ohio | Parlex USA LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a punch press to punch cable when it amputated the employee's right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-09-12 | Vandalia | Ohio | SB Specialty Metals LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On September 12, 2017, an employee was operating a crane when the steel product he was moving slipped out of the under hook device and pinched his fingers between the falling steel product and material that was stacked underneath it. The employee sustained amputations to the right middle and ring fingers. | |||||
| 2017-08-01 | Vandalia | Ohio | Dart Transit LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
| An employee was conducting a tug test with a tractor trailer and suffered chest pains, dizziness and shortness of breath due to exertion. | |||||
| 2017-06-14 | Vandalia | Ohio | White Castle Distributing LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was positioning himself to service a machine when his left pinky finger entered a drive sprocket, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-01-26 | Vandalia | Ohio | All Service Plastic Moldings, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a jar assembly machine when the machine lacerated the employee's left index finger, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-01-12 | Vandalia | Ohio | Printgraphics LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting the clutch on a press when the press began running, amputating his right-hand ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-11-04 | Vandalia | Ohio | GE Aviation Sytems, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| A worker was hospitalized for smoke inhalation while winding copper coils. | |||||
| 2015-08-05 | Vandalia | Ohio | Smedley's Chevrolet Sales, Inc. | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c. |
| An employee was delivering parts when a shoe string got caught on a door stop at a customer's worksite. The employee tripped and fell, injuring the left knee. | |||||