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OSHA Injury Report: Southern

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Southern in Birmingham, AL 35234 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was southern Custom Body Builder in manufacturing.

Establishment
Southern
Parent company
Altec Industries
Street
1730 Vanderbilt Rd.
City
Birmingham
State
AL
ZIP
35234
On-site location
Line 5 Final Assembly
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Beveling a part to weld into position.

Associate was beveling a piece of flat bar to fill a gap. The part was being beveled because it was too thick. While grinding the grinder kicked back and caught the associates thumb. Associate was wearing A5 welding gloves and th part being beveled was 4.5 ft long.

Laceration to the thumb while the associate was holding the part down to be beveled.

Grinder disc

Laceration to the thumb while the associate was holding the part down to be beveled.

Job description
Southern Custom Body Builder
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
333120 — Manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
594
Total hours worked
1186860
EIN
630362926
Establishment ID
325591
Employer case #
925
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
14:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
11FEB26:15:32:00

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.