Dowagiac, MI —
OSHA Injury Report: Creative Foam - Dowagiac
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Creative Foam - Dowagiac in Dowagiac, MI 49047 resulted in days away from work. Employee was group III in foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Creative Foam - Dowagiac
- Parent company
- Creative Foam Corporation
- Street
- 55210 Rudy Road
- City
- Dowagiac
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 49047
- On-site location
- MAC 2 Back
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 4
- Days restricted or transferred
- 13
Before the incident
Attempted to assist the roll tender in loading material into the back of [REDACTED] 2.
What happened
An employee attempted to assist the roll tender in loading material into the back of [REDACTED] 2. As they put their knee on the side bar and leaned over it to feed material into the white wheel with their left arm their coat got caught in the wheel. The wheel pulled and pinched the employee 's left upper arm between the wheel and the pin chain.
Injury or illness
Avulsion to upper left forearm
Object or substance involved
Mac 2 white wheel and pin chain
Summary line
Avulsion to upper left forearm from [REDACTED] white wheel.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Group III
- SOC code
- 00-9900 — Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- 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 #
- 582
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:30
- Time of incident
- 19:05
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 14JAN26:17:27:00
Source
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.