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OSHA Injury Report: West Star Aviation

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at West Star Aviation in 790 Heritage Way, Grand Junction, CO 81506 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was aircraft Sheet Metal Tech II in aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding).

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Establishment
West Star Aviation
Parent company
West Star Aviation
Street
790 Heritage Way
City
Grand Junction
State
CO
ZIP
81506
On-site location
2858 Aviators Way
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Employee was in the process of squeezing [REDACTED] on the aircraft.

While holding a pneumatic rivet squeezer in his left hand he was moving so another employee could move an extension cord. When the employee pulled the extension cord it activated the tool in the injured employees hand and because he was holding it in the area where the tool squeezes it smashed his finger.

Laceration to left index finger without damage to nail requiring sutures

Rivet squeezer

Laceration to left index finger without damage to nail requiring sutures as a result of his finger being crushed in a rivet squeezer.

Job description
Aircraft Sheet Metal Tech II
SOC code
47-2211: Sheet Metal Workers
NAICS code
488190: Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding)
NAICS vintage
2022
Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
563
Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
1,040,135
EIN
841056824
Establishment ID
1080912
Employer case #
10202539
Date of incident
Shift started
06:00
Time of incident
10:00
Filing year
2023
Submitted to OSHA
2024-01-23

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Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.

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