OSHA Injury Report: American Crystal Sugar

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Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

He was grinding beveling a pipe while wearing a face shield and safety glasses on and off between [REDACTED]. On his way home his right eye felt kind of scratchy and irritated when he would blink. He figured he had a piece of metal in his eye and hoping it would work its way out. This am his eye was still irritated and told his supervisor who said to come and see the nurse. The nurse looked in his eye and couldn 't see anything but eye looked irritated and the employee wanted to go to the eye doctor to have it checked out. He was seen at Opticare in [REDACTED] and had a piece of metal embedded in his right eye and it was removed and he was put on antibiotic drops.

What happened

He was grinding beveling a pipe while wearing a face shield and safety glasses on and off between [REDACTED]. On his way home his right eye felt kind of scratchy and irritated when he would blink. He figured he had a piece of metal in his eye and hoping it would work its way out. This am his eye was still irritated and told his supervisor who said to come and see the nurse. The nurse looked in his eye and couldn 't see anything but eye looked irritated and the employee wanted to go to the eye doctor to have it checked out. He was seen at Opticare in [REDACTED] and had a piece of metal embedded in his right eye and it was removed and he was put on antibiotic drops.

Injury or illness

Foreign body right eye

Object or substance involved

Metal while grinding a pipe

Summary line

Foreign body right eye while grinding a pipe

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

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.