PEORIA, ILLINOIS—
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
Nonstructural fire, n.e.c. · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., 7000 SW Adam Street, PEORIA, ILLINOIS 61641 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was working on a slide gate at the bottom of a ladle. The employee was lancing the bottom of the ladle to open it up when the oxygen lance leaked oxygen into his glove. A spark then ignited the glove on the employee's left hand, burning it.
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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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