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OSHA Injury Report: Merit Contracting

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Merit Contracting in ROCHESTER, MN 55906 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was apprentice in roofing contractors.

Establishment
Merit Contracting
Parent company
Merit Contracting
Street
4661 HADLEY VIEW CT NE
City
ROCHESTER
State
MN
ZIP
55906
On-site location
North Warehouse
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Moving material

A co-worker was cutting lumber for the construction of ramps at the [REDACTED]. The wind was not to heavy that day but a gust blew through as the co-worker was cutting. [REDACTED] was downwind and the sawdust blew in [REDACTED] 's direction. Sawdust was able to get in [REDACTED] 's eye. [REDACTED] was wearing his everyday eyeglasses at the time and not the proper safety glasses. [REDACTED] told [REDACTED] he had sawdust in his eye.

Debris in eye

Sawdust

Right eye

Job description
Apprentice
SOC code
47-2181 — Roofers
NAICS code
238160 — Roofing contractors
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
75
Total hours worked
132416
EIN
411426936
Establishment ID
728186
Employer case #
23-08
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
12:40:00.000
Submitted
14FEB24:17:14:00

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.