| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-30 | Woodstock | Il | Charter Dura-Bar | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting iron bar samples with a horizontal band saw when the saw made contact with the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a laceration. | |||||
| 2021-03-17 | Woodstock | Il | Vorteq Coil Finishers, LLC. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was cleaning a backing roll. The employee's hand was caught in a nip point between rolls, causing a crushing injury to the hand and arm. | |||||
| 2021-01-13 | Woodstock | Ct | Jeffco Fibres | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was removing a piece of cardboard from a pallet of material when they tripped over a pallet and fell, striking their arm on the ground and suffering a concussion and a loss of consciousness. | |||||
| 2020-09-14 | Woodstock | Il | Associated Electrical Contractors, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| At about 6:30 a.m. on September 14, 2020, an employee was preparing to load reels of copper cable onto a flatbed truck. The employee's left ring finger was pinched between two of the reels, causing a displaced fracture and an amputation to the fingertip. | |||||
| 2020-08-27 | Woodstock | Ny | Ametek Rotron | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a tube cutting machine. The machine operated while his hand was inside a chute and amputated the tip of his finger. | |||||
| 2020-06-12 | Woodstock | Alabama | Chilton Contractors Inc | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in work zone |
| An employee flagging traffic was hit by a vehicle's passenger side fender and side mirror. The employee sustained contusions. | |||||
| 2020-02-19 | Woodstock | Illinois | Charter Dura-Bar | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was repairing a bushing on a fixture stand in a repair area, using a portable drill tool with a deburring attachment. The tool started to jump around, and the employee's left gloved hand made contact with the deburring attachment. The employee suffered a laceration to the top of the hand and an amputation of the tip of the little finger. | |||||
| 2019-04-01 | Woodstock | Illinois | DBI Services | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was exiting a truck. Two of the truck's side steps had been torn off and the employee fell to the pavement, suffering a broken pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-03-13 | Woodstock | Alabama | Skycraft Limited, LLC | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Struck against object or equipment while moving it |
| An employee was working with a team to lift and move a metal skylight curb. The curb slipped and while the employee tried to stabilize it, the metal corner of the curb lacerated his forearm/wrist area. | |||||
| 2019-02-15 | Woodstock | Georgia | OFFICEMAX INCORPORATED | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level |
| On February 15, 2019, an employee was using a rolling ladder to retrieve a chair from the top shelf in a warehouse area. He fell while descending the ladder, first landing on the box containing the chair (where he broke three ribs), then landing on the concrete floor (where he struck his head and suffered a concussion). He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-09-19 | Woodstock | Georgia | Medical Imaging Solutions USA, LLC | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was taking cryogen readings from MRI equipment when he tripped over a cabling trough that was part of a new MRI staging set-up and impacted the floor. He suffered fractures to his left-side shoulder and hip. | |||||
| 2018-05-21 | Woodstock | Alabama | Jimco Acoustics Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working from drywall stilts while installing a ceiling grid when he lost his balance and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained a concussion, skull fracture, fractured sphenoid bone, subdual hematoma, and intracerebral hemorrhage. | |||||
| 2017-10-06 | Woodstock | Georgia | The Erosion Company, Inc. | Brain | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| On 10/5/2017, at approximately 11:58 a.m., an employee was operating construction equipment when it flipped and threw the employee 100 feet from the cab. The employee suffered brain and arm injuries, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-09-28 | Woodstock | Georgia | Chumley's Paving & Grading, Inc. | Head | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up on side of road |
| An employee was pulling string on the side of a new road to be paved when a reversing tractor hit the employee. The employee suffered a head fracture. | |||||
| 2017-05-01 | Woodstock | Georgia | Regal Entertainment | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was using an extension ladder to change a light bulb outside near the trash compactor when the employee fell approximately 5 feet to the ground, suffering fractured ribs and a brain injury. | |||||
| 2017-01-23 | Woodstock | Georgia | Rodolfo Reyna Manrique | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was loading material onto the roof of a newly constructed home when he fell to the ground and fractured his elbow and hip. Fall protection was not worn at the time. | |||||
| 2017-01-11 | Woodstock | Georgia | Shumate Mechanical | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| Employees were performing maintenance work on an HVAC unit on the roof of the building. As an employee was descending a ladder, his right leg slipped and he fell 10-12 feet to the concrete floor fracturing both legs and ankles. | |||||
| 2016-06-15 | Woodstock | Illinois | Behr Iron & Steel, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee's fingertip was caught between a metal chain and a peg from a lugger box, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2016-03-10 | Woodstock | Georgia | Builders First Source | Upper and lower limb(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was pinched between a trailer truck and a 40-yard dumpster after the trailer rolled from where it was parked. He suffered a right thigh laceration and a right shoulder strain. | |||||
| 2016-02-20 | Woodstock | Illinois | Wolf Distributing Company, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was sitting on a skid of 2x4's being transported on a forklift driven by a coworker. The employee fell off of the skid and was run over by the forklift, fracturing/crushing his arm. | |||||
| 2015-01-21 | Woodstock | Illinois | ARNTZEN CORPORATION | Foot (feet) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| On 1/21/15, at approximately 5:00 a.m., an employee was performing a torching operation when a piece of hot material entered his left safety shoe, causing a burn on the top of the left foot. Employee informed supervisor and supervisor performed first aid by applying burn ointment on burn and wrapping foot. The employee completed his shift. The employee returned to worked and completed his shifts on 1/22 and 1/23 and was not at work on 1/25. The employee came to the supervisor's office on 1/26/15 | |||||