Buffalo, NY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Caplugs
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Caplugs in 2150 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14207 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was extrusion Operator in bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Caplugs
- Parent company
- Protective Industries Inc.
- Street
- 2150 Elmwood Avenue
- City
- Buffalo
- State
- NY
- ZIP
- 14207
- On-site location
- Teknova clamping station
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 13
Before the incident
EE was sitting at the work station using the manual clamping fixture to install caps into the tube throughout his shift. EE worked at station ~4 hours on [REDACTED] and throughout following day [REDACTED]. He started to feel soreness on second day.
What happened
On [REDACTED] 25 EE reported to Supervisor that he was having pain during certain lifting motions and felt a vein under his L arm that he did not feel under his R. Attributed to work activities on [REDACTED] and [REDACTED].
Injury or illness
L rotator cuff strain
Object or substance involved
Repeated operation of Teknova clamping fixture
Summary line
L rotator cuff strain from repeat operation of manual clamp fixture
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Extrusion Operator
- SOC code
- 51-6091: Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders,
- NAICS code
- 326199: Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 435
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 850,333
- EIN
- 203117446
- Establishment ID
- 80412
- Employer case #
- C25-10
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-09
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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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