Duluth, MN ·
OSHA Injury Report: Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball in 800 Garfield Avenue, Duluth, MN 55802 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was forge Operator in steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball
- Parent company
- Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc.
- Street
- 800 Garfield Avenue
- City
- Duluth
- State
- MN
- ZIP
- 55802
- On-site location
- Line #1 Unscrambler
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 38
Before the incident
Employee was going to pull a steel bar from the rack.
What happened
Employees right thumb got caught between the bar and top of swing gate while attemping to pull bar out of the rack.
Injury or illness
Laceration and fracture to right thumb
Object or substance involved
Steel bar.
Summary line
Right thumb laceration and fracture
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Forge Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4031: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- NAICS code
- 332111: Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 40
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 76,344
- EIN
- 590792436
- Establishment ID
- 305045
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 13:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-30
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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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