Chaska, MN —
OSHA Injury Report: Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska in Chaska, MN 55318 resulted in days away from work. Employee was facilities in in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska
- Parent company
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.
- Street
- 1000 Lake Hazeltine Drive
- City
- Chaska
- State
- MN
- ZIP
- 55318
- On-site location
- 322 Facilities work area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
- Days restricted or transferred
- 6
Before the incident
[REDACTED] was performing maintenance on an instrument waste booster pump.
What happened
While performing maintenance they encountered a corroded copper line with a copper or brass compression nut. To repair the pump they needed to remove the compression nut which was proving difficult due to the corrosion. Using their left thumb and left middle finger to hold the part the associate struck the copper pipe with a hammer. This action caused a small quantity of the shock-sensitive compound to detonate.
Injury or illness
Minor burns and contusions on their thumb and middle finger and a small number of tiny shrapnel pieces embedded in the same fingers where the associate was holding the compression nut.
Object or substance involved
Copper pipe covered in cupric azide.
Summary line
Minor burns and contusions to the thumb and middle finger from copper pipe corroded by highly diluted sodium azide.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Facilities
- SOC code
- 00-9900 — Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- NAICS code
- 325413 — In-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 1051
- Total hours worked
- 1849541
- EIN
- 951040600
- Establishment ID
- 346561
- Employer case #
- 141
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 16:40
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 06FEB26:19:03:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.