Houghton, MI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan in 46980 State Hwy M26, Houghton, MI 49931 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was assembly Technician in construction machinery manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan
- Parent company
- Somero Enterprises, Inc.
- Street
- 46980 State Hwy M26
- City
- Houghton
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 49931
- On-site location
- Inside of the paint booth
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 18
Before the incident
Taking new filters and moving the filters to the paint booth area.
What happened
The employee first opened the filter door to remove the old paint booth filters. Then he removed the upper grates which are on top of the paint booth filters. Next he removed the filters from the paint booth filter location. He then folded the filters in order to toss the filters out. After the filters were removed then he placed himself into the filter booth floor area. Once the employee placed his feet on the bottom floor of the paint booth filter housing area the subfloor wasn 't designed to hold that much weight which caused him to fall 3 and a half feet and land on his right shoulder.
Injury or illness
Trip Fall
Object or substance involved
Subfloor
Summary line
Elbow and clavicle contusion from fall into paint booth
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Assembly Technician
- SOC code
- 51-2099: Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other
- NAICS code
- 333120: Construction machinery manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 131
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 232,493
- EIN
- 203225968
- Establishment ID
- 273830
- Employer case #
- 23-01
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 06:33
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-09
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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