East Grand Forks, MN ·
OSHA Injury Report: American Crystal Sugar
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at American Crystal Sugar in 1020 Business Hwy 2, East Grand Forks, MN 56721 resulted in days away from work. Employee was packaging Warehouse Tech III in granulated beet sugar manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- 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
- PW Sugar Loading
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 108
Before the incident
Got a call of a frantic employee over the radio. walked out of my office saw the employee holding her hand that was covered in blood. I quickly noticed she was missing finger. I called the supervisor to bring the medical bag and code blue team to our break room and called [REDACTED] I went to the scene of the accident after employee was cared for by EMS I noticed to doors to the collection tote on the dust collection system was open. I also witnessed the air lock to the machine still running. It is my belief that the employee must have reached her hand inside the collection tote and got her fingers caught in the air lock. The fingers were sucked up into the vacuum hose and recovered from the dust collection tote directly next the machine.
What happened
Got a call of a frantic employee over the radio. walked out of my office saw the employee holding her hand that was covered in blood. I quickly noticed she was missing finger. I called the supervisor to bring the medical bag and code blue team to our break room and called [REDACTED] I went to the scene of the accident after employee was cared for by EMS I noticed to doors to the collection tote on the dust collection system was open. I also witnessed the air lock to the machine still running. It is my belief that the employee must have reached her hand inside the collection tote and got her fingers caught in the air lock. The fingers were sucked up into the vacuum hose and recovered from the dust collection tote directly next the machine.
Injury or illness
finger amputation
Object or substance involved
Wiebull 3 dust collection air lock
Summary line
amputated fingers by wiebull [REDACTED] dust collection air lock
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Packaging Warehouse Tech III
- SOC code
- 51-9111: Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 311313: Granulated beet sugar manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 457
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 823,731
- EIN
- 840004720
- Establishment ID
- 1068242
- Employer case #
- INC-06307
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 08:00
- Time of incident
- 09:11
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-29
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Source
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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