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OSHA Injury Report: Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan in Houghton, MI 49931 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was assembly Technician in construction machinery manufacturing.

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
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
18

Taking new filters and moving the filters to the paint booth area.

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.

Trip Fall

Subfloor

Elbow and clavicle contusion from fall into paint booth

Job description
Assembly Technician
SOC code
51-2099 — Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other
NAICS code
333120 — Construction machinery manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
131
Total hours worked
232493
EIN
203225968
Establishment ID
273830
Employer case #
23-01
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
6:33:00.000
Submitted
09JAN24:14:12:00

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.