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OSHA Injury Report: John Deere Seeding Group Valley City

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at John Deere Seeding Group Valley City in Valley City, ND 58072 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was manual Arc Welder in farm tractors and attachments manufacturing.

Establishment
John Deere Seeding Group Valley City
Parent company
Deere & Company
Street
1725 7th St S.E.
City
Valley City
State
ND
ZIP
58072
On-site location
W5050 robot
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
59

Removed the tooling that was in the robot.

Operator was installing tooling into the robot cell. While lowering the tooling into place with hoist operator reached around to help guide tooling onto guide pin Line of Fire. Operator wasn 't sure how finger was caught between the two surfaces. Possible tooling was hung up on guide pin and with enough weight left off the hoist a sudden drop in the tooling or operator with offhand on remote pushed the down button accidently.

Laceration to left index finger

robot tooling

Laceration to left index finger robot tooling

Job description
Manual Arc Welder
SOC code
51-4121 — Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
NAICS code
333111 — Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
306
Total hours worked
682396
Establishment ID
820203
Employer case #
241945536
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
13:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
27JAN2025:16:57:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.