Severe Workplace Injuries in Mchenry, Illinois
Employers in Mchenry reported 12 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through August 2025: 9 workers hospitalized and 3 amputations (25% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 2 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Mchenry since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 39 inspections at Mchenry workplaces, and 24 of them (62%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 80 serious, 2 willful and 4 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $255,890.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Superior Felt & Filtration, L.L.C. (complaint, details) | 4 (2 serious+) | $8,341 |
| Chromold Plating Inc. (planned, details) | 8 (8 serious+) | $5,000 |
| Associated Roofing Inc. (complaint, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $52,758 |
| Phillip D. Walters (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $13,000 |
| Gomez Roofing LLC (planned, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $18,480 |
| Chroma Color Corporation (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $7,000 |
| Mfs Holdings, LLC (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,500 |
| Oggy's LLC (planned, details) | 4 (3 serious+) | $18,252 |
| Francisco Gomez (planned, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $6,300 |
| J. Pease Construction Co., Inc. (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $3,823 |
| Team Car Care, LLC (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $13,653 |
| Precise Construction & Renovations, Inc. (planned, details) | 5 (3 serious+) | $9,578 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 12 newest severe injury reports from Mchenry employers, as OSHA published them.
Aug 19, 2025 · Medcor Inc Hospitalized
An employee was standing while working in her room. She had a call, turned, slipped, and fell to the hardwood floor, landing on her hip. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to her sacrum and right-side pelvis.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Multiple trunk locations · Health care and social assistance
Oct 14, 2024 · Miller Formless Co. Hospitalized
An employee was sanding a shaft on a metal lathe. The lathe caught the employee's glove and pulled their hand into the machine, resulting in crushing injuries to their hand and finger. The employee was hospitalized.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Hand(s) and finger(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1782722
Mar 26, 2024 · Brake Parts Inc. Hospitalized
The injured employee was training an employee on a forklift when the forklift reversed and struck the injured employee, pinning them against a rack guard and fracturing their left ankle.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Ankle(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 22, 2022 · Avient Corporation Amputation
An employee was using an extruder machine when it punctured his left hand, causing the amputation of a fingertip.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 7, 2022 · Jensen Carpentry, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee fell off a ladder, landing on the ground and suffering a head laceration.
Other fall to lower level · Head · Construction
May 17, 2022 · AT&T Hospitalized
While descending a ladder, an employee fell about 5 feet to the ground, shattering his ankle and breaking his leg.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Ankle(s) and leg(s) · Information
Dec 6, 2018 · O'Reilly Auto Parts Hospitalized
An employee was walking through the store, tripped over a box, and fell fracturing their hip. The employee was hospitalized.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Hip(s) · Retail
Sep 21, 2018 · Michels Corporation Amputation
An employee was leaning on a pile of sheet metal and amputated a finger between sheets of metal.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Construction
Jun 15, 2016 · Dell Services Hospitalized
An employee tripped over an electrical cord and fell, requiring hospitalization.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Nonclassifiable · Professional and technical services
Jan 12, 2016 · Northern Illinois Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee was warming up the van to prepare for patient pickup. While walking next to the van, the employee slipped on an ice-covered curb, injuring their left leg and requiring surgery to the left tibia.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Lower leg(s) · Health care and social assistance
Oct 26, 2015 · Brake Parts, Inc. Amputation
On or about 7:30 a.m. on October 26, 2015, an employee was preparing to change a powered industrial truck battery. Due to the end stops on the multi-level battery rack being bent out of place, the battery was positioned too far into the rack for the large suction cup on the automatic battery machine to reach it and pull the battery out. The employee used a strap to try to pull the battery forward and in doing so, his left pinky finger was pinched between the strap and a guardrail in the area, causing a fingertip amputation.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
May 15, 2015 · Curran Contracting Co Hospitalized
On 5/15/15, an employee was hospitalized after suffering a laceration to the left pinky finger. The employee was conducting maintenance activities at the time.
Contact with objects and equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1065615
After a workplace injury in Illinois
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Workers compensation lawyers in McHenry
Lawbamba lists 8 workers compensation lawyers with an office in McHenry, Illinois, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 4 come first in that listing (how the order is set).
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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