Tamaqua, PA —
OSHA Injury Report: Highwood USA LLC
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Highwood USA LLC in Tamaqua, PA 18252 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was process Engineer Specialist in profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Highwood USA LLC
- Parent company
- Highwood USA LLC
- Street
- 87 Tide Road
- City
- Tamaqua
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 18252
- On-site location
- P6 Extrusion Line
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 28
Before the incident
Employee was moving sizers away from the end of the table with the help of two other employees.
What happened
As the sizers were moved they slipped off the table rails and the edge of the sizers came down on the employee 's left hand pinky finger.
Injury or illness
Injury. Laceration and fracture to tip of finger on left hand.
Object or substance involved
Sizer coming down on pinky finger on left hand.
Summary line
While moving the sizers the employee 's finger became caught between the sizer. The sizer slipped out of his hand and fell onto his finger and against the rail of the table. This resulted in the employee 's pinky finger on left hand being lacerated and fr
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Process Engineer Specialist
- SOC code
- 17-2112 — Industrial Engineers
- NAICS code
- 326121 — Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 86
- Total hours worked
- 156888
- EIN
- 50555556
- Establishment ID
- 82584
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 1:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 1:30:00.000
- Submitted
- 09FEB24:18:49:00
Source
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.