SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS—
Scot Industries, Inc
Struck against object or equipment, n.e.c. · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Scot Industries, Inc, 1961 W. US HWY 30, SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS 60554 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning their hands with a shop rag and got a steel splinter in their hand. The splinter required surgery.
More severe injuries at Scot Industries, Inc
WOOSTER, OHIO—
Scot Industries, Inc.
An employee hooked up two bundles of steel tubing to be lifted with an overhead crane. He stumbled while walking and operating the crane and his right hand contacted the crane's pulley mechanism. The upward motion of the crane caused the cable to pull his finger into the pulley. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.
SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS—
Scot Industries, Inc.
An employee was pulling a piece of square bar (weighing about 354 pounds). The bar slid and pinched the employee's right middle fingertip against another bar, causing an amputation (as well as a laceration and fracture) to the fingertip.
SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS—
SCOT INDUSTRIES, INC.
An employee was pulling a nylon sling up from between loose pieces of material in a bundle cart. The bundle cart tipped over, and seven loose pieces of tubing fell from it to the ground about 30 inches below, then rolled into the employee's left ankle/foot. The employee was pinched between the tubing and a stack of material.
SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS—
SCOT INDUSTRIES, INC.
An employee was using an overhead crane to move steel tubing when one stack of tubing fell and struck the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg.
EAST TROY, WISCONSIN—
Scot Industries, Inc
An employee was operating a machine when a tube became stuck in a pneumatic roller. He went to remove the tube from the roller. When he removed enough pressure from the roller, the tube ejected out of the machine, lacerating and breaking his left pinky finger above the first knuckle.
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