Grantsville, MD ·
OSHA Injury Report: Pillar Innovations, LLC
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Pillar Innovations, LLC in 200 Corporate Drive, Grantsville, MD 21536 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was mechanical Technician in underground mining machinery manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Pillar Innovations, LLC
- Parent company
- Pillar Innovations, LLC
- Street
- 200 Corporate Drive
- City
- Grantsville
- State
- MD
- ZIP
- 21536
- On-site location
- Customer Manufacturing Facility- Flowery Branch, GA
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Installing fiber stands using a handheld battery-operated drill for drilling and tapping. After successfully completing the first stand he proceeded to the next. Upon inspection he discovered that one of the holes on the guarding was misaligned. To correct the issue he removed the cover plate and inserted a burr bit into the drill to ream the hole.
What happened
While reaming he held the plate steady on a solid surface with his left hand. During the process the bit caught the plate causing it to spin unexpectedly. The spinning plate slipped from his grasp and struck his left hand just above the ring finger resulting in a laceration approximately 1 2 inch long and 1 4 inch deep. Reacting to the initial contact [REDACTED] instinctively jerked back while still holding the drill. The plate still attached to the spinning bit made secondary contact with his left elbow causing an additional laceration approximately 1 2 inch long and 5 8 inch deep.
Injury or illness
Laceration of right hand and elbow
Object or substance involved
Steel plate
Summary line
Cover plate slipped striking employee in the hand and elbow causing lacerations. Sutures used to close.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Mechanical Technician
- SOC code
- 17-3027: Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- NAICS code
- 333131: Underground mining machinery manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 312
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 696,662
- EIN
- 432114580
- Establishment ID
- 187002
- Employer case #
- 3
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 11:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-16
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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