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OSHA Injury Report: Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball in Duluth, MN 55802 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was forge Operator in steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished.

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
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
38

Employee was going to pull a steel bar from the rack.

Employees right thumb got caught between the bar and top of swing gate while attemping to pull bar out of the rack.

Laceration and fracture to right thumb

Steel bar.

Right thumb laceration and fracture

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
Avg employees
40
Total hours worked
76344
EIN
590792436
Establishment ID
305045
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
13:30:00.000
Submitted
30JAN24:14:38:00

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.