Wheeling, IL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant in 600 Diens Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was machine Operator in drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant
- Parent company
- Taubensee Steel & Wire
- Street
- 600 Diens Drive
- City
- Wheeling
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 60090
- On-site location
- Wire Drawing Machine #5
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 5
Before the incident
Unstacking a group of material carriers by hand
What happened
He was standing on the edge of the carrier stack trying to tip them over to loosen up. While doing so he pulled backwards using his body weight and strained his leg.
Injury or illness
Right hamstring muscle strain
Object or substance involved
No object directly harmed the employee.
Summary line
Sprain of right leg trying to tip over a stack of carriers onto the floor
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Machine Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4199: Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 331222: Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 112
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 237,125
- EIN
- 362065420
- Establishment ID
- 849588
- Employer case #
- 25-041
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 06:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-02
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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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