Legal Question in Employment Law in Illinois

Unemployment compentastion being challenged by employer

I was working as a truck driver for a small company for about 4 months when i had an accident in a truck at an grain eleavator were i raised my truck bed to sweep it out before i loaded the grain and i forgot to let it back down and hit the loadout spout and spilled wheat on the ground i called my boss right after and he hung up on me, so after i 12 hours of cleaning up the mess i was fired and told to clean out my personal things out of the truck, so i applied for umenployment compensation and i was awared it by the judacator, the empolyer appleaed to the referee, and the referee affrimed the local offices determation, and now the empolyer has appealed again to the borad of review and the are saying they fired me for miscounduct because i didnt follow their rules for cleaning the truck bed, the said they warned me about 10 days pior that i was to clean my truck bead out at the delivery site and no at the loading site. But that is not true i was warned about not getting the truck bed clean enough and was told to clean it better, they never said were we had to clean it it was just that it had to be cleaned, I am just going nuts I just dont know what to do. they have to have proof right? What are my chances? Please any help

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