Tamaqua, PA —
OSHA Injury Report: Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania in Tamaqua, PA 18252 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was operator in bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
- Parent company
- Reynolds Consumer Products
- Street
- 31 Progress Avenue
- City
- Tamaqua
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 18252
- On-site location
- EE was walking between the bag machine and the winder on line 300.
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Performing a CIL Task - see question 17 for details
What happened
EE was performing a routine CIL retaping of the V-frame. They walked to the opposite side of the machine to get measurement to retape the V-frame. While returning to the toolbox the EE walked behind another employee applying arrows on the bag machine and misjudged the step down and tripped into a moving pallet jack that happened to be going by at the same time to deliver packaging into cell 1. EE hit their face into the pallet jack cutting their lip and breaking their tooth. Team member was initially given first aid on site. First responders evaluated controlled bleeding and was transported to local ER for further assessment. 1 stitch was given to lip and then referred to an emergency dentist.
Injury or illness
Chipped Broken Tooth & Laceration resulting in a suture.
Object or substance involved
Falling into pallet jack frame.
Summary line
Tooth Chip Break laceration resulting in a suture
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 326111 — Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 320
- Total hours worked
- 709688
- EIN
- 942906693
- Establishment ID
- 59128
- Employer case #
- 391
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 10:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 27JAN26:19:59:00
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.