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OSHA Injury Report: Bway Valparaiso

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Bway Valparaiso in Valparaiso, IN 46383 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was p Quality Technician in septic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing.

Establishment
Bway Valparaiso
Parent company
Mauser Packaging Solutions
Street
4002 Montdale Park Drive
City
Valparaiso
State
IN
ZIP
46383
On-site location
Valparaiso, Quality
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Grabbing pails off the shelf to do an ambient drop test.

Quality tech was doing ambient drop tests. As EE was manually lifting a pail to remove it on the 3rd shelf EE hit another pail that was sitting on the shelf. The struck pail fell off shelf landing on top of left foot resulting in contusion to the top of foot.

Nature of Injury: SWELLING |Type: |Body Part: FOOT LEFT

Box container of Parts Material

As QA Tech was removing a 3 4 full pail on the storage shelf the lifted pail struck a stationary one causing it to fall. Falling pail struck left foot resulting in contusion to top of foot.

Job description
P Quality Technician
SOC code
51-9061 — Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
NAICS code
326199 — Septic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
155
Total hours worked
305768
EIN
363624491
Establishment ID
1309867
Employer case #
IE-2508-0
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00
Time of incident
21:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
20FEB26:18:54:00

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.