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OSHA Injury Report: American Crystal Sugar

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at American Crystal Sugar in East Grand Forks, MN 56721 resulted in days away from work. Employee was pulp Dryer Foreman in granulated beet sugar manufacturing.

Establishment
American Crystal Sugar
Parent company
American Crystal Sugar- East Grand Forks Factory
Street
1020 Business Hwy 2
City
East Grand Forks
State
MN
ZIP
56721
On-site location
Pulp dryers
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
180
Days restricted or transferred
25

Employee was attempting to open the B dryer Baghouse to check to determine if it was unplugged. He and another employee had been working on a fire in the [REDACTED] clone earlier. Once the fire was out they emptied the [REDACTED] clone. Before starting it back up they decided to check the baghouse to ensure that it was not plugged up. When employee opened the baghouse door a fire started. As employee was holding the door shut he asked the second employee to relatch it but he could not get the door to relatch. Employee told 2nd employee to grab a crowbar to help get it closed. When 2nd employee got back with the crowbar flames had engulfed employee and blew him back. [REDACTED] was called immediately with the report of a fire and a burn victim.

Burns to body from a fire in the pulp dryer area.

Burns all over body.

Fire from the baghouse

Burns all over body from pulp dryer

Job description
Pulp Dryer Foreman
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
311313 — Granulated beet sugar manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
457
Total hours worked
823731
EIN
840004720
Establishment ID
1068242
Employer case #
INC-06264
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00:00.000
Time of incident
16:15:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:18:25:00

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.