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OSHA Injury Report: Creative Foam - Dowagiac

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Creative Foam - Dowagiac in Dowagiac, MI 49047 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was maintenance Technician in foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing.

Establishment
Creative Foam - Dowagiac
Parent company
Creative Foam Corporation
Street
55210 Rudy Road
City
Dowagiac
State
MI
ZIP
49047
On-site location
Mac 1
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Attempted to modify the guard for MAC 1 to fit the white wheel.

While a maintenance technician attempted to modify the guard for [REDACTED] to fit the white wheel the guard slipped out of the vice. The guard fell and hit the technician 's left top of their forearm.

Laceration to left forearm

guard

Laceration to left forearm from guard.

Job description
Maintenance Technician
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
326150 — Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
283
Total hours worked
509870
EIN
381905349
Establishment ID
522032
Employer case #
552
Date of incident
Shift started
14:30
Time of incident
21:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
14JAN26:17:03:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.