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OSHA Injury Report: American Crystal Sugar

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at American Crystal Sugar in 1020 Business Hwy 2, East Grand Forks, MN 56721 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was journeyman Pipefitter in granulated beet sugar manufacturing.

Where did this happen?

Establishment
American Crystal Sugar
Parent company
American Crystal Sugar- East Grand Forks Factory
Street
1020 Business Hwy 2
City
East Grand Forks
State
MN
ZIP
56721
On-site location
Machine Shop

What was the outcome?

Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Before the incident

He was grinding beveling a pipe while wearing a face shield and safety glasses on and off between [REDACTED]. On his way home his right eye felt kind of scratchy and irritated when he would blink. He figured he had a piece of metal in his eye and hoping it would work its way out. This am his eye was still irritated and told his supervisor who said to come and see the nurse. The nurse looked in his eye and couldn 't see anything but eye looked irritated and the employee wanted to go to the eye doctor to have it checked out. He was seen at Opticare in [REDACTED] and had a piece of metal embedded in his right eye and it was removed and he was put on antibiotic drops.

What happened

He was grinding beveling a pipe while wearing a face shield and safety glasses on and off between [REDACTED]. On his way home his right eye felt kind of scratchy and irritated when he would blink. He figured he had a piece of metal in his eye and hoping it would work its way out. This am his eye was still irritated and told his supervisor who said to come and see the nurse. The nurse looked in his eye and couldn 't see anything but eye looked irritated and the employee wanted to go to the eye doctor to have it checked out. He was seen at Opticare in [REDACTED] and had a piece of metal embedded in his right eye and it was removed and he was put on antibiotic drops.

Injury or illness

Foreign body right eye

Object or substance involved

Metal while grinding a pipe

Summary line

Foreign body right eye while grinding a pipe

Employee and industry

Job description
Journeyman Pipefitter
SOC code
47-2152 — Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
NAICS code
311313 — Granulated beet sugar manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
457
Total hours worked
823731
EIN
840004720
Establishment ID
1068242
Employer case #
INC-06351

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Time of incident
16:00:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:18:59:00

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.