Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-01-27 | Wheaton | Mn | Raguse Family Partnership | Multiple body parts | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was using a manlift when the top pulley became detached from the anchor point in the manlift's head house and the employee fell within the manlift, resulting in two fractured arms and a fractured vertebra. | |||||
2020-05-20 | Wheaton | Illinois | Pipe Strong LLC. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a flatbed trailer to the ground. The employee suffered a broken skull, with brain bleeding, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-21 | Wheaton | Illinois | Area Erectors Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing onto a trailer when he fell to the ground, breaking his wrist and injuring his hip. | |||||
2019-08-15 | Wheaton | Illinois | Romexterra Construction Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was working from a ladder when he fell off, landing on the ground 7 or 8 feet below. He suffered a head injury requiring sutures and a concussion and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-04-18 | Wheaton | Illinois | Catigny Foundation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
On April 18, 2018, an employee was standing on a bale of hay while restacking straw in a barn when the straw bales moved, causing him to lose his balance and fall. He hit a railing as he fell and landed on the other side, breaking ribs and requiring surgery. |