Scale and Balance (except Laboratory) Manufacturing

Industry Summary

As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 4,093 workers employed at 134 Scale and Balance (except Laboratory) Manufacturing establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 39 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 31 workers. On average over the last five years, the Scale and Balance (except Laboratory) Manufacturing industry has a slightly higher OSHA reported accident rate (27% more) than the broader All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing Industry

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OSHA investigators arrived in Webb City, MO on Tuesday, April 12th 2016 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at Cardinal Scale Manufacturing. A employee working as a was injured on the job when the explosion, n.e.c.

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OSHA IDSevere Injury Report

Accident Date2016-04-06

Accident DegreeInjury

NarrativeAn employee attempted to tap into an airline to operate a nail gun. When he operated the nail gun, it exploded. The employee lost an eye and suffered multiple lacerations to the hands and face.

The accident investigation below was opened on Monday, August 31st 2015 by OSHA representitives in WEBB CITY, MI after learning of an incident at CARDINAL SCALE MFG which had occured on the same day. A employee working as a was injured on the job when the struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part

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OSHA IDSevere Injury Report

Accident Date2015-08-31

Accident DegreeInjury

NarrativeAn employee suffered two broken ankles while hoisting a scale using an overhead crane. The scale had just been painted and was being lifted from a floor platform to be moved to an adjacent area for drying. The employee was raising the scale off the floor platform, taking up the slack of the rigging, when the scale slid off the platform and struck the employee's feet. Both ankles were broken from the impact.

On Friday, February 26th 2010 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Knowles, OK at Unibridge System Inc.. A employee working as a Laborer was killed on the job when the employee died after being struck by falling pipe

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OSHA ID200644649

Accident Date2010-02-22

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeEmployee #1 was removing the tie-down straps on a flat-bed semi-trailer that was loaded with an old drive-on weighing scale. The employee loosened the straps on the driver side and walked around to the passenger side of the trailer to remov e the straps. He was standing beside the trailer rolling up a strap, when a piec e of pipe rolled off of the trailer and struck him on the side of his body. He w as transported to the hospital, where he died three days later.