S5 · 03/2020 · Progress Rail (Caterpillar) · McCook, IL, USA
| Company | Progress Rail (Caterpillar) |
| Category | rail supplier |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 03/2020 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | McCook, IL, USA · Progress Rail plant |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | 1 fatality |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Patch |
Matt Barr, 37, an employee of Kato Engineering working at Progress Rail's McCook, Illinois facility, was struck by a machine part on March 10, 2020 and died at Loyola Medical Center; OSHA opened an investigation into whether Progress Rail complied with workplace safety regulations at the time.