Post Falls, ID —
OSHA Injury Report: Ground Force Mfg
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Ground Force Mfg in Post Falls, ID 83854 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was temp Worker Welder in underground mining machinery manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Ground Force Mfg
- Parent company
- Truck Bodies & Equipment International Inc.
- Street
- 6001 E. Seltice Way
- City
- Post Falls
- State
- ID
- ZIP
- 83854
- On-site location
- Small Parts Dept.
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Worker did not report this at time of injury ([REDACTED] - which was same day as a separate previous non-reported injury was treated). Drilling and grinding metal parts at his work station bench without company mandated face shield.
What happened
[REDACTED] worker notified his supervisor [REDACTED] that he somehow got debris in L eye again (see previous [REDACTED] injury report) during work hours on [REDACTED] or morning of [REDACTED] while drilling metal parts at his work station bench. Upon investigation of this injury and previous injury it was found that debris introduced to left eye could have occurred during donning of welding hood or hardhat which had been improperly laid upside-down on bench during grinding and or drilling (gathering debris) or while removing face shield which may have accumulated debris during grinding.
Injury or illness
Foreign body in L eye
Object or substance involved
Metal dust.
Summary line
Foreign body in L eye from dumping metal dust out of welding hood into eyes.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Temp Worker Welder
- SOC code
- 51-4121 — Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- NAICS code
- 333131 — Underground mining machinery manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 171
- Total hours worked
- 293471
- EIN
- 203101428
- Establishment ID
- 411911
- Employer case #
- 6
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 30JAN2025:21:56:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.