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OSHA Injury Report: Maintenance Shop

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Maintenance Shop in Puyallup, WA 98374 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was mechanic in fire Protection.

Establishment
Maintenance Shop
Parent company
Central Pierce Fire & Rescue
Street
17210 110th Ave E
City
Puyallup
State
WA
ZIP
98374
On-site location
Shop
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

On back on the shop floor grinding metal from a weld using a pneumatic die grinder with a straight carbide burr to remove the material.

While grinding away material some metallic shavings were flung from the work material & made it past the safety glasses & into right eye becoming stuck in cornea.

Foreign body (metal) lodged in the cornea of right eye.

Metal shavings

Foreign body (metal) lodged in the cornea of right eye.

Job description
Mechanic
SOC code
49-9071 — Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
NAICS code
922160 — Fire Protection
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
10
Total hours worked
17172
EIN
911225672
Establishment ID
931014
Employer case #
202300003
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
17:00:00.000
Submitted
01FEB24:21:47:00

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.