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OSHA Injury Report: Schwickerts Tecta America

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Schwickerts Tecta America in Mankato, MN 56001 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was roofing foreman in low slope roofing installation.

Establishment
Schwickerts Tecta America
Parent company
Schwickert's Tecta America
Street
330 Poplar Street
City
Mankato
State
MN
ZIP
56001
On-site location
College Roof
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
5

Attempting to cut away some sheetmetal that was in the way of a new roof installation using an angle grinder fitted with a cutting blade.

Employee choose to use a 4 hand grinder with the wrong blade in it and the blade kicked back striking him in the lower left leg.

Laceration to left leg requiring 13 stitches to close.

Blade on 4 hand grinder

Laceration from hand grinder blade which contacted Rt lower leg13 stitches

Job description
Roofing foreman
SOC code
47-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
NAICS code
238160 — Low slope roofing installation
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
215
Total hours worked
428169
Establishment ID
67522
Employer case #
4
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
10:00:00.000
Submitted
31JAN24:17:10:00

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.