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OSHA Injury Report: Mason County Highway Department

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Mason County Highway Department in Havana, IL 62644 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was working Foreman in pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction.

Establishment
Mason County Highway Department
Parent company
Mason County
Street
1164 East Laurel Avenue
City
Havana
State
IL
ZIP
62644
On-site location
County Highway 14 South Side of the Ditch
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Walking within the County 's Right of Way assessing how to remedy a washed out fore slope of a ditch.

While walking to the washed out fore slope [REDACTED] stepped down on a stalk of a plant sticking out of the ground it went between his work boot and pant leg and penetrated his leg.

The stalk penetrated his right calf muscle causing a laceration of approximately 1 in diameter.

A broken off stalk of a plant

A stalk from vegetation penetrated the right calf muscle causing a laceration of approximately 1 in diameter.

Job description
Working Foreman
SOC code
47-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Wo
NAICS code
237310 — Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
6
Total hours worked
11171
EIN
376001498
Establishment ID
1263137
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00
Time of incident
10:15
Filing year
2025
Submitted
16JAN26:18:14:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.