Durham, CT —
OSHA Injury Report: Hobson & Motzer, LLC - Durham, CT
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Hobson & Motzer, LLC - Durham, CT in Durham, CT 6422 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was technician Level in cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Hobson & Motzer, LLC - Durham, CT
- Parent company
- Vantedge Medical
- Street
- 30 Airline Drive
- City
- Durham
- State
- CT
- ZIP
- 6422
- On-site location
- CNC Department
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 23
Before the incident
Technician was moving buckets containing metal chips to empty them to prevent them from getting dangerously heavy. Tech then proceeded to swap out pallets on a CNC machine (not wooden pallets trays for parts).
What happened
While technician was moving and lifting the pallets and totes containing parts up to a cart he swung his left arm up with the pallet and felt a jerking pain.
Injury or illness
Left upper arm strain
Object or substance involved
Tight area that operator was working in improper lifting technique (should have lifted up the pallet with both hands rather than swinging it up and over the cart).
Summary line
Left upper arm strain from improper movement
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Technician Level
- SOC code
- 00-9900 — Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- NAICS code
- 333514 — Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 238
- Total hours worked
- 503497
- Establishment ID
- 1337639
- Employer case #
- 10
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:00
- Time of incident
- 17:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 16FEB26:19:51:00
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.