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OSHA Injury Report: Groot Aurora

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Groot Aurora in Aurora, IL 60505 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was mechanic in garbage collection services.

Establishment
Groot Aurora
Parent company
Groot, Inc.
Street
1565 Aurora Avenue Lane
City
Aurora
State
IL
ZIP
60505
On-site location
shop
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Cutting U-Bolt with torch

A piece of slag popped while cutting and it landed in his right ear.

ear injury

metal slag

EE was removing the u-bolts from unit 3602 with a cutting torch. A piece of slag popped while cutting and it landed in his right ear.

Job description
mechanic
SOC code
53-7081 — Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
NAICS code
562111 — Garbage collection services
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
115
Total hours worked
312037
Establishment ID
1222032
Employer case #
1M01M01279
Date of incident
Shift started
4:00:00.000
Time of incident
12:30:00.000
Submitted
02MAR24:20:23:00

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.