| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-30 | Wheeling | Wv | The Ziegenfelder Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was repairing the belt and pulley system of a conveyor. His gloved right hand was caught in the belt and pulley when the machine started, resulting in a partial amputation of the right thumb. | |||||
| 2021-10-28 | Wheeling | Wv | Tri-State Machine, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was working in the shop when several large pieces of metal welded together fell on his leg, resulting in a fracture. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2021-08-26 | Wheeling | Il | The Segerdahl Corporation dba SG360 | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was webbing paper through the glue unit of a printing press. The employee's hand was pulled between two rollers and crushed. | |||||
| 2021-08-25 | Wheeling | Il | Bertog Landscape Co | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was loading plant material onto a truck. The plant's 50-pound, 20-gallon plastic container broke, causing the employee to lose his balance and fall off the truck. He suffered three herniated disks in his neck. | |||||
| 2021-07-21 | Wheeling | Il | WIELAND METALS, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was pointing to a part of a machine. His right index finger was caught by tubing that was into the machine to be processed. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2021-07-12 | Wheeling | Wv | The Ziegenfelder Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was removing a popsicle stick from a frozen treat machine when their glove was caught in the machine, resulting in a fingertip amputation on the right hand. | |||||
| 2021-06-21 | Wheeling | Il | Rentokil North America, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c. |
| An employee tripped and fell while walking into an office. She suffered a broken right wrist. | |||||
| 2021-04-02 | Wheeling | Il | Durable Packaging International, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was clearing excess material from an interfolder machine when a knife inside the machine caught and amputated the tip of the employee's right middle finger. | |||||
| 2021-02-25 | Wheeling | Wv | Panhandle Cleaning and Restoration, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| The injured employee and a co-worker were carrying a window through the yard to store it in the garage. The injured employee slipped on snow/ice and landed on the right side of his body. He was later hospitalized with a broken rib and a collapsed lung. | |||||
| 2020-08-18 | Wheeling | Il | Durable Packaging International, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating an electric pallet rider when he hit a parked pallet rider. His left foot was caught between the two riders. | |||||
| 2020-07-04 | Wheeling | West Virgini | Wheeling Hospital | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| A nursing assistant's foot caught on the edge of a patient's bed as she was leaving the room. The employee fell to the floor and tried to break her fall with her hands. She sustained two broken wrists. | |||||
| 2020-06-12 | Wheeling | Illinois | D & M Painting Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| Two employees were working inside of a water tower to erect scaffolding when they fell approximately 40 feet to the ground. | |||||
| 2020-04-10 | Wheeling | Illinois | Preferred Electrical Construction Corporation of Illinois | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
| While working on a panel, an electrical arc flash occurred and burned an employee's torso and arms. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-01-15 | Wheeling | Illinois | Taubensee Steel & Wire Company | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| On January 15, 2020, an employee was walking toward a wire carrier that was about to finish uncoiling when the wire carrier became jammed and fell onto the employee's ankle, breaking it. | |||||
| 2019-04-30 | Wheeling | Illinois | INLAND DIE CASTING COMPANY, INC. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to remove a spur gear from a die casting machine. The spur gear slipped and caught his left finger resulting in amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2019-02-14 | Wheeling | Illinois | Mechanical & Industrial Steel Services, Inc. | Ankle(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle |
| On February 14, 2019, an employee was between two I-beams while attaching rigging when the second I-beam rolled onto his right foot trapping it. The employee sustained a severe ankle strain. | |||||
| 2018-09-12 | Wheeling | Illinois | Accu-Fab, Incorporated | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On September 12, 2018, two employees were operating the press brake. One of the employee's left hand was caught in the point of operation and crushed by the press. | |||||
| 2018-07-29 | Wheeling | Illinois | RHP Staffing Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee cleaned a shower area with a multipurpose spray cleaner. She experienced breathing problems once she got home and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-07-28 | Wheeling | Illinois | Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a pasta machine when it amputated his right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-05-07 | Wheeling | Illinois | R.C.M. Industries dba Inland Die Casting Company | Upper and lower limb(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was installing lighting over a trim press machine while standing on a ladder. He touched a live wire, fell off the ladder, struck a metal container, and fell to the floor. He injured both shoulders and his knee. | |||||
| 2018-05-02 | Wheeling | Illinois | Richelieu Foods, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to remove a piece of cheese from a cheese slicer when the blade amputated the employee's right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-04-30 | Wheeling | West Virgini | American Electric Power Company | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| On April 30, 2018, at approximately 3:00 p.m., an employee was in a bucket truck tapping up a new service on a secondary 120/240 volt line when two hot wires made contact, causing an electrical flash. The employee received a second degree burn to his left hand, which was ungloved at the time. | |||||
| 2018-02-06 | Wheeling | Illinois | The Sherwin-Williams Company | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| On February 6, 2018, an employee was operating a ride-along pallet jack when the employee's foot slipped off the pallet jack. The employee's ankle was then pinned between the pallet jack and a rack rail, suffering a laceration. | |||||
| 2018-01-16 | Wheeling | West Virgini | The Ziegenfelder Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On January 16, 2018, at approximately 5:00 a.m., an employee was operating a crimper machine when his finger contacted a pinch point and was severely cut, requiring hospitalization. The machine was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2018-01-11 | Wheeling | Illinois | Taubensee Steel & Wire Company | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was walking to his workstation when he was struck by a forklift and fell to the floor. The forklift then started to lower the steel load onto the employee. The driver stopped when he heard screams and saw the employee through the metal coil he was transporting. The employee broke his left femur and right foot. | |||||
| 2017-05-05 | Wheeling | Illinois | Wieland Metals, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was un-jamming a machine while an air cylinder had residual air in it. The machine actuated, amputating the employee's right pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-03-02 | Wheeling | Illinois | R.C.M. Industries, Inc. dba Inland Die Casting Company | Foot (feet) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was helping another employee lift a furnace door weighing approximately 1,500 lbs. using a forklift. The door fell off the forks and onto the employee's foot. | |||||
| 2016-10-21 | Wheeling | West Virgini | Kroger Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee suffered an electrical shock while cleaning the top of a blast chiller cabinet. | |||||
| 2016-07-31 | Wheeling | Illinois | Hard Rock Concrete Cutters, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was hospitalized with chemical burns during a concrete cutting operation. | |||||
| 2016-06-01 | Wheeling | West Virgini | Mole Master Services Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| While soda blasting a wall covered in tobacco fines, an employee experienced nausea and trouble breathing. He was hospitalized with tobacco/nicotine poisoning. | |||||
| 2016-02-12 | Wheeling | West Virgini | Unifirst Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| On February 12, 2016, at approximately 8:30 a.m., an employee and coworker were making a delivery with a freightliner step van. The employee got out of the van and walked to the back of the vehicle to open the van doors. The driver began backing towards the dock and the employee was pinned between the van and the dock, resulting in fractured ribs and a bruised torso. | |||||
| 2015-12-03 | Wheeling | West Virgini | United Electric of Wheeling, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| On December 3, 2015, at approximately 1:45 pm, an employee fell from an 8-foot fiberglass stepladder. The employee was installing an exterior light on the side of a building using a hammer drill while standing on the stepladder. The employee fell from the ladder and struck the concrete driveway, fracturing both wrists. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2015-09-28 | Wheeling | Illinois | Horizon Carpentry, Inc. | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was working on a pitched roof, clearing off materials, when he fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below. He was wearing fall protection at the time, but the shock pack did not deploy, and all of the fall protection fell with him. He fractured his lower back. | |||||
| 2015-08-10 | Wheeling | Illinois | WIELAND METALS, INC. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| On August 10, 2015, an employee suffered an injury to his right great (big) toe when a coil that was sitting upright on the floor fell on its side and onto the employee's foot while the employee attempted to spin the coil. The coil was being moved from storage to production. At this time the employee has been hospitalized and it is unknown if a partial amputation will occur. | |||||
| 2015-07-22 | Wheeling | Illinois | R.C.M. Industries, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was preparing to repair a die on an aluminum die-casting machine. While attempting to remove the die screws, the employee moved an oil line. The line broke and sprayed hot lubricant oil over the employee's face, chest, and back. | |||||
| 2015-07-13 | Wheeling | Illinois | Edgar A Weber and Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee operating a 1000 lb. mixer came in contact with the moving parts of the blade and amputated three fingers on the right hand. | |||||
| 2015-06-28 | Wheeling | Illinois | R.C.M. Industries, Inc. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee working as maintenance staff was removing tight screws with a wrench when the wrench slipped off and hit him in the neck, causing a hematoma. | |||||
| 2015-03-14 | Wheeling | West Virgini | Wheeling Continuous Care Center | Foot (feet) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee carrying a pan of hot water in the kitchen spilled hot water on her right foot; she suffered first and second degree burns. | |||||
| 2015-01-19 | Wheeling | Illinois | Handi-Foil Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was helping another employee line up two heating plates that weighed approximately 2,000 pounds. The second employee signaled the forklift operator to set the plate down. When the forklift operator lowered the plate too quickly, the injured employee could not get his left thumb out of the way, causing the tip of his thumb to be amputated between the plates. | |||||