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OSHA Injury Report: Southern

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Southern in Birmingham, AL 35324 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was southern Custom Body Builder in construction Machinery Manufacturing.

Establishment
Southern
Parent company
Altec Industries
Street
1730 Vanderbilt Rd.
City
Birmingham
State
AL
ZIP
35324
On-site location
Set Up
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
54

Associate cut off a an aluminum mudflap bracket to reposition it. After removing the part he was holding the bracket in his hand and was using a grinder to clean off the previous welds to reweld to the body.

Associate was grinding the welds off of the part while holding it then as he as grinding the grinder kicked back and hit his left knuckle on the hand that was holding the part.

Laceration to the left knuckle

Grinder with fiber disk.

Cut Laceration Puncture Hand Left Side Tools Instruments Equipment: Handtools - powered Cutting handtoolspowered

Job description
Southern Custom Body Builder
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
333120 — Construction Machinery Manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
419
Total hours worked
914167
EIN
630362926
Establishment ID
325591
Employer case #
2023-037
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
14:45:00.000
Submitted
08FEB24:14:42:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.