Mount Sterling, IL

Employers with the most severe injuries in Mount Sterling

Example incidents

• Mid-Illinois Companies, Corp. MOUNT STERLING, ILLINOIS · 2025-07-21 · Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet

  A painter was painting while standing on the first step of a scaffold. He lost balance and fell 1 to 1.5 feet while striking the scaffold. The employee sustained a laceration and puncture to the abdomen and was hospitalized.

• Dot Foods, Inc. MOUNT STERLING, ILLINOIS · 2024-11-27 · Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing

  An employee was performing preventative maintenance on an exhaust fan on the roof of the engine room. When the employee removed the lid to the exhaust fan, his hand slipped and contacted the belt inside the fan. The tip of his left ring finger was amputated.

• Dot Foods, Inc. MOUNT STERLING, ILLINOIS · 2023-05-26 · Fall on same level due to slipping

  On May 26, 2023, at approximately 2:30 AM, a sanitation employee was picking up a cardboard box in the freezer and slipped on black ice. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left ankle that required surgery.

• DOT FOODS, INC MOUNT STERLING, ILLINOIS · 2021-11-12 · Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area

  An employee was standing in a warehouse next to a pallet, waiting for someone to get a pallet of product for him. A forklift struck the employee and crushed his leg.

• Global Metal Construction d.o.o. MOUNT STERLING, ILLINOIS · 2021-08-30 · Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.

  On August 30, 2021, an employee was unpacking and redistributing assembly materials. He used a scalpel to cut the banding on a bundle of vertically placed steel L-profiles. The L-profiles then fell over and onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to both legs.

• DOT FOODS, INC MOUNT STERLING, ILLINOIS · 2021-03-27 · Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident

  An employee was operating an enclosed pallet jack and stopped to scan a pallet. As the employee reached out to scan the pallet, the cord of the scanner hit the throttle of the pallet jack. The pallet jack lunged forward and pinched the employee's right leg against a doorway protection pole resulting in a lower leg fracture.

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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.