Allentown, PA —
OSHA Injury Report: Amcor Rigid Packaging
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Amcor Rigid Packaging in Allentown, PA 18106 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was injection Lead in bottles, plastics, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Amcor Rigid Packaging
- Parent company
- Amcor Rigid Packaging
- Street
- 6974 Schantz Rd
- City
- Allentown
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 18106
- On-site location
- Injection Department Husky 17
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
The employee was the lead in the department and was assisting another operator on starting up the equipment at [REDACTED] 17. While having trouble making parts the employee stuck their fingers into the cavities to verify if the cavities had plastic inside and received burns from the leaking plastic.
What happened
The employee was the lead in the department and was assisting another operator on starting up the equipment at husky 17. While having trouble making parts the employee stuck their fingers into the cavities to verify if the cavities had plastic inside and received burns from the leaking plastic that became attached to their gloves. The employee needed to have the correct ppe glove to verify and did not have that on.
Injury or illness
2nd degree burn of multiple fingers of the right hand not including the thumb. 2nd degree burn of palm of right hand.
Object or substance involved
Machine cavities leaking plastic and not having the correct gloves on while troubleshooting
Summary line
2nd degree burn of multiple fingers of the right hand not including the thumb. 2nd degree burn of palm of right hand.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Injection Lead
- SOC code
- 51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- NAICS code
- 326160 — Bottles, plastics, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 271
- Total hours worked
- 562944
- EIN
- 364126680
- Establishment ID
- 1291308
- Employer case #
- 4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 19:00
- Time of incident
- 1:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 28JAN26:18:35:00
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.