Fridley, MN ·
OSHA Injury Report: HERAEUS MEDICAL COMPONENTS - Fridley, MN
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at HERAEUS MEDICAL COMPONENTS - Fridley, MN in 48 Northern Stacks Dr NE Ste 100, Fridley, MN 55421 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was development Technician in instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- HERAEUS MEDICAL COMPONENTS - Fridley, MN
- Parent company
- Heraeus Medical Components
- Street
- 48 Northern Stacks Dr NE Ste 100
- City
- Fridley
- State
- MN
- ZIP
- 55421
- On-site location
- Extrusion Room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 11
Before the incident
Employee was heating up extruderer equipment.
What happened
While taking apart equipment to investigate a clogged condition the employee was standing in front of the opening when the obstruction suddenly came loose some heated liquid resin sprayed out of the equipment.
Injury or illness
First degree burns on face neck and arms. Second degree burns on arm.
Object or substance involved
Heated plastic resin.
Summary line
The technician was servicing the extruder equipment and beginning to clean. During the cleaning he was burned for by melted plastic that sprayed from the extruder and received first degree burns on his face neck and first degree on both arms. Second de
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Development Technician
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 339112: Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 111
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 64,484
- EIN
- 271584096
- Establishment ID
- 701532
- Employer case #
- 3
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 07:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-31
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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