Elkader, IA · 2024-04-24

OSHA Injury Report: Mobile Track Solutions

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

At a glance

On 2024-04-24, an injury at Mobile Track Solutions in 203 Johnson Street, Elkader, IA 52043 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was cut Table Operator in construction machinery manufacturing.

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Where did this happen?

Establishment: Mobile Track Solutions
Parent company: Mobile Track Solutions
Street: 203 Johnson Street
City: Elkader
State: IA
ZIP: 52043
On-site location: Building A, Kinetic Cut Table

What was the outcome?

Outcome: Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type: Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred: 2

Before the incident

Team member was placing a sheet clamp under a 1.5 piece of steel to move it on the table.

What happened

While attaching the clamp their gloved right hand was under the sheet. The overhead crane trolley drifted along the bridge due to the weight of the sheet on the sheet hook that was holding the sheet up. The drift caused the sheet to lower onto their right middle finger.

Injury or illness

Laceration and contusion to right middle finger.

Object or substance involved

Caught between steel sheet and brass tip of cut table.

Summary line

Pinched right middle finger from placing hand between steel sheet and cut table.

Employee and industry

Job description: Cut Table Operator
SOC code: 51-9032: Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
NAICS code: 333120: Construction machinery manufacturing
NAICS vintage: 2012
Employees at this establishment (2024 average): 142
Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total): 246,932
Establishment ID: 916830
Employer case #: 5

When (timing detail)

Date of incident: 2024-04-24
Shift started: 14:30
Time of incident: 15:00
Filing year: 2024
Submitted to OSHA: 2025-01-10