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OSHA Injury Report: Valmont Applied Coating Technology

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Valmont Applied Coating Technology in Mendota Heights, MN 55120 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was maintenance in coating metals and metal products for the trade.

Establishment
Valmont Applied Coating Technology
Parent company
Valmont Industries, Inc.
Street
2411 Pilot Knob Rd
City
Mendota Heights
State
MN
ZIP
55120
On-site location
Maintenance
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
24

Employee was taking out a stack of scrap metal to the larger dumpster outside with a forklift. The stack would not slide off the forks so the employee got out climbed up the side of the dumpster and tried to pull the metal off the forks.

When he pulled on the metal it came off the forks all at once and struck his left middle finger leaving a deep cut in the middle knuckle that require stitches.

Injury

Steel

Laceration on the left middle finger mid knuckle from falling steel

Job description
Maintenance
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
332812 — Coating metals and metal products for the trade
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
192
Total hours worked
351979
Establishment ID
1102298
Employer case #
23_3940
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
13:00:00.000
Submitted
05FEB24:20:43:00

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.