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Contractor killed by machine part at Progress Rail's McCook, IL plant

S5 · 03/2020 · Progress Rail (Caterpillar) · McCook, IL, USA

Record

CompanyProgress Rail (Caterpillar)
Categoryrail supplier
Typefatality
Date03/2020
Time of daynot documented
LocationMcCook, IL, USA · Progress Rail plant
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scale1 fatality
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourcePatch

What happened

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.

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