Asheville, NC ·
OSHA Injury Report: New Belgium Brewing Company: Asheville
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at New Belgium Brewing Company: Asheville in 91 Craven ST, Asheville, NC 28806 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was senior Packaging Equipment Technician in beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- New Belgium Brewing Company: Asheville
- Parent company
- New Belgium Brewing Company
- Street
- 91 Craven ST
- City
- Asheville
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28806
- On-site location
- Combo line palletizer
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Adjusting misaligned pallets
What happened
Packaging technician was performing a non-routine task adjusting misaligned pallets being fed into the combo line palletizer. The task required them to duck under the layer head and manually realign the pallet so the photo eye detected their presence. When they attempted to backout from under they layer head and stand up they struck the back of their head on the round photo eye reflector.
Injury or illness
Laceration to Head
Object or substance involved
Photo eye reflector on palletizer
Summary line
Laceration to Head caused by Photo eye reflector on palletizer
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Senior Packaging Equipment Technician
- SOC code
- 51-9111: Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 312120: Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 160
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 274,673
- EIN
- 841225570
- Establishment ID
- 1015515
- Employer case #
- IN-202509
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 12:15
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-23
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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