Whittier, CA —
OSHA Injury Report: Miller Castings, Inc.
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Miller Castings, Inc. in Whittier, CA 90601 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was sandblast Operator in foundries, steel investment.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Miller Castings, Inc.
- Parent company
- Miller Castings, Inc.
- Street
- 2503 Pacific Park Drive
- City
- Whittier
- State
- CA
- ZIP
- 90601
- On-site location
- Finishing Sandblast Bldg 2
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
The employee was sandblasting at his workstation.
What happened
A nearby employee used the compressed air to remove metal dust off of his clothes and blew all the metal dust toward the unsuspecting employee performing sandblast operations.
Injury or illness
Injury of conjunctiva and corneal abrasion without foreign body left eye initial encounter
Object or substance involved
metal dust foreign debris
Summary line
The employee was operating the sandblast machine when an employee standing to his left used the compressed air. The debris flew in the direction of the employee and resulted in a foreign object entering the employees left eye.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Sandblast Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4072 — Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, an
- NAICS code
- 331512 — Foundries, steel investment
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 430
- Total hours worked
- 797489
- EIN
- 952873159
- Establishment ID
- 1045477
- Employer case #
- 8
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 11:40
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 04FEB26:17:59:00
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.