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OSHA Injury Report: Gates Galesburg

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Gates Galesburg in galesburg, IL 61401 resulted in days away from work. Employee was operator Millman in plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing.

Establishment
Gates Galesburg
Parent company
Gates Galesburg
Street
630 US Highway 130 East
City
galesburg
State
IL
ZIP
61401
On-site location
Mill 3 Wig Wag
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
30

Employee was inside the wig wag machine removing stuck rubber off the flapper arm

njured employee was on Mill 2 and noticed Mill 3 was having trouble. Employee went over to assist in getting rubber off the flapper arms of the wig wag machine. After review of the camera footage it showed the employee climb up into the wig wag and on top of the pallet and was trying to cut rubber with the mill knife off the flapper arms. The shift supervisor was standing in that location watching the employee perform this task. The Mill 3 [REDACTED] was also trying to assist and getting the line back up and going. At the point before the incident the Mill 3 operator was told to go double tap the foot pedal to try to get the rubber unstuck.

Injury

wig wag flapper

Fracture Broken Bone Puncture to Left Chest Ribs

Job description
Operator Millman
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
326220 — Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
119
Total hours worked
210123
EIN
840857401
Establishment ID
1339202
Employer case #
IN-2024022
Date of incident
Shift started
19:00
Time of incident
6:25
Filing year
2024
Submitted
26FEB2025:17:18:00

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.