PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., 7000 S.W. Adams Street, PEORIA, ILLINOIS 61641 on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
On or about July 26, 2016, an employee was operating a crane magnet while moving four steel billets. The employee lifted two billets from the south end to connect the C-channel to the billets when the force of the magnet caught his hand between the C-channel and the 50-pound billets, fracturing his left thumb.
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PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
An employee was working to close a furnace door. The hydraulic mechanism that opens and closes the furnace door was non-operational and had been disconnected to allow the furnace door to be opened manually. As the employee was releasing the pins that held the door open, the door and the hydraulic cylinder fell, pinching their left hand between the hydraulic cylinder's base plate and the furnace. The employee suffered amputation of the little fingertip.
PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
An employee was helping stack scrap wire. A fork truck was setting a carrier of scrap wire on top of another carrier. The scrap wire on the fork truck caught on the second carrier, and the carrier on the forks was pulled off. It struck the employee in the head, causing a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.
PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
On July 7, 2025, at approximately 1:45 AM, an employee was moving vermiculite in a zinc pan with shovel. Molten zinc entered his left boot and caused burns to his shin and the top of his foot.
PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
An employee was setting a floor plate on strand #2 while a rod in strand #1 cobbled at the break-out box and struck the employee's right foot. The employee sustained a puncture to their foot requiring surgery.
PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
An employee was stringing wire around a drawing block at a wire machine. His left hand became caught between the wire and the drawing block, and he suffered an amputation to the ring fingertip.
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