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OSHA Injury Report: GM Defiance Operations

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at GM Defiance Operations in Defiance, OH 43512 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was operator MFG in iron foundries.

Establishment
GM Defiance Operations
Parent company
GM Defiance Operations
Street
26427 OH-281
City
Defiance
State
OH
ZIP
43512
On-site location
Plant 2 MOD 4
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

shoveling

I was shoveling sand when I started to have low back pain I tried to find my supervisor to tell him about it but I couldnt find him and I didnt have his phone number I work on 2nd shift finishing as a temp since [REDACTED] I was wearing my safety glases ear plugs bump cap gloves 12 face respirator

Strain lower back

shoveling

Strain lower backshoveling

Job description
Operator MFG
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
331511 — Iron foundries
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
542
Total hours worked
1410860
EIN
270383222
Establishment ID
1438712
Employer case #
2025a1559
Date of incident
Shift started
14:30
Time of incident
17:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
20FEB26:20:04:00

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.