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OSHA Injury Report: Kurita America

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Kurita America in Brooklyn Park, MN 55345 resulted in days away from work. Employee was production Tech in water, distilled, manufacturing.

Establishment
Kurita America
Street
6600 94th Avenue North
City
Brooklyn Park
State
MN
ZIP
55345
On-site location
Shakopee Manufacting
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1

The employee was pre-weighing 45% potassium hydroxide into an open drum using a flux pump before transferring the chemical.

While pumping the chemical into the drum a splash occurred resulting in chemical exposure to the employee’s eye.

The employee sustained a mild chemical burn to the eye.

The substance that caused the injury was 45% potassium hydroxide.

While wearing all required PPE 45% KOH splash breached Safety Glasses and got into employee 's eye

Job description
Production Tech
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
325998 — Water, distilled, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
608
Total hours worked
1352690
Establishment ID
1523359
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Time of incident
11:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
27FEB26:22:08:00

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.