BIRMINGHAM, AL —
OSHA Injury Report: Extruflex North America, LLC
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Extruflex North America, LLC in BIRMINGHAM, AL 35244 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was temporary Employee in polyvinyl film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Extruflex North America, LLC
- Parent company
- Extruflex North America, LLC
- Street
- 169 Business Center Dr
- City
- BIRMINGHAM
- State
- AL
- ZIP
- 35244
- On-site location
- Extrusion Grinder Area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee was feeding strips of PVC material into the grinder.
What happened
Material was hanging up and employee was prodding the material with a PVC pipe to free it. The material was freed and was captured by the grinder blade. This caused the slack in the material to tighten suddenly. The sudden tension put force on the PVC pipe and accelerated it towards the employee.
Injury or illness
The employees right eyebrow was lacerated by the end of the pipe.
Object or substance involved
PVC Pipe
Summary line
Struck in face by PVC pipe
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Temporary Employee
- SOC code
- 9999 — Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 326113 — Polyvinyl film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 24
- Total hours worked
- 50383
- EIN
- 990361508
- Establishment ID
- 1093701
- Employer case #
- 0724DB
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 15:00:00.000
- Submitted
- 30JAN24:21:00:00
Source
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.