105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

COLUMBUS, OHIO—

Altium Packaging-Columbus

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Final narrative

An employee was clearing a jam from the blow mold machine because bottles were stuck between the blow mold machine and the cooling bed. The employee stopped the cooling bed and used a resin rod that was approximately 24 inches long to knock the bottles down to the floor. As they reached for the bottles, the swing arms that grab the bottles from the blow mold machine and lay them on the cooling bed activated and struck the employee. The employee sustained a severe laceration to their left forearm.

Hospitalized Forearm(s) Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery n.e.c.

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