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OSHA Injury Report: Fairfield Chair

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Fairfield Chair in Lenoir, NC 28645 resulted in days away from work. Employee was upholstery in upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing.

Establishment
Fairfield Chair
Parent company
Fairfield Chair Company
Street
1331 Harper Ave
City
Lenoir
State
NC
ZIP
28645
On-site location
Upholstery Bench
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
2
Days restricted or transferred
5

Upholstering a sofa with a pneumatic staple gun

Employee had leaned down to staple underside of sofa with fabric when he fired staple gun the staple missed the furniture and hit his safety glasses then furniture and bounced back toward him and went under safety glasses and hit his eye causing a laceration.

Laceration to eye

Staple from staple gun

Laceration to eye from pneumatic staple gun staple

Job description
Upholstery
SOC code
51-6093 — Upholsterers
NAICS code
337121 — Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
393
Total hours worked
658680
EIN
560219070
Establishment ID
838753
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
6:45
Time of incident
8:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
05FEB2025:14:45:00

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.