Valdosta, GA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant in 400 South Blanchard, Valdosta, GA 31601 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was interior blaster in freight car cleaning services.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant
- Parent company
- Union Tank Car Co.
- Street
- 400 South Blanchard
- City
- Valdosta
- State
- GA
- ZIP
- 31601
- On-site location
- Valdosta
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee felt his eye begin to burn while blasting.
What happened
The employee was wearing a blast hood at the time of the incident and did not stop to remove his hood or rub his eye as he was inside a tank car at the time. Upon exiting the car his leadman noticed his eye was red and he asked about it and the employee said it was burning. The leadman instructed him to rinse the eye out and reported to the supervisor
Injury or illness
Eye irritation
Object or substance involved
Debris (dust blast media)
Summary line
Summary: Employee experienced irritation to his left eye while blasting. |Nature of Injury: Abrasion |Type: Foreign Body|Body Part: Eye(s) |Equipment: Other (Self (No foreign body detected but employee was rubbing his eye.))
Employee and industry
- Job description
- INTERIOR BLASTER
- SOC code
- 53-7061: Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
- NAICS code
- 488210: Freight car cleaning services
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 120
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 287,945
- EIN
- 363104688
- Establishment ID
- 1049258
- Employer case #
- IE-2309-00
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-12
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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