Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-05-10 | Willow Springs | Il | Rowell Chemical Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
Employees were transferring chlorine containing material from a storage tank into a tanker truck. Chlorine containing air escaped and two employees were hospitalized for lung damage due to chlorine exposure. | |||||
2020-04-13 | Willow Springs | Missouri | C & R Lumber LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was collecting sawdust from under the edger and saw a piece of wood lodged in the bottom side of the edger. When he reached to remove the wood, the saw caught the scrap wood and pulled the employee's hand into the blade resulting in an amputation. | |||||
2019-01-25 | Willow Springs | Missouri | Mid-West Walnut | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was in a man basket that had been lifted by a forklift feeding a kiln. The man basket fell from the forklift approximately 12 feet to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to the pelvis and elbow. | |||||
2015-05-04 | Willow Springs | Illinois | Rowell Chemical Corporation | Lower leg(s) | Nonclassifiable |
An employee sustained a right calf injury, resulting in hospitalization. |