Mineral Wells, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility in 2101 SE 1st St., Mineral Wells, TX 76067 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was service Person in PVC pipe manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility
- Parent company
- CANTEX
- Street
- 2101 SE 1st St.
- City
- Mineral Wells
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 76067
- On-site location
- Extrusion Line 4
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 9
Before the incident
employee attempted to clear the lodged pipe by moving two other pieces of pipe behind the lodged pipe.
What happened
The pipe was lodged under a lower a rail guard and after he moved the pipe from the mandrel the switch sensor was activated causing the lodged pipe to come under pneumatic pressure of the pipe moving mechanism to the turner. Once the employee cleared the lodged pipe from the underneath the rail guard it engaged the pipe moving arms and raised the lodged portion of the pipe directly upward and causing the end of the pipe to make contact the employees ' torso area causing a contusion. The employee was given a prescription for pain and written on restrictions making this an OSHA recordable medical treatment case with restrictions.
Injury or illness
Contusion
Object or substance involved
Pressurized PVC pipe
Summary line
Contusion to chest from pipe under pressure becoming dislodged from employee trying to clear it.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Service Person
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 326122: PVC pipe manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 166
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 345,280
- EIN
- 133645159
- Establishment ID
- 1089034
- Employer case #
- 6
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 14:43
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-02
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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