OSHA Injury Report: Epredia

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

The operator was running the “catch end” of the large theime printing machine. This machine takes 1 large sheet of glass (about 5’x 5’) at a time and cycles it through several sections. First the brushwasher which cleans the glass then the precenter which centers the glass on a track for accurate printing then the track slides the sheet to the screen printer section the glass is printed on and then tracked to the catching table. This catching table will flop glass from horizonal orientation to vertical so it can be removed by operators and secured into a rack that eventually will be pushed into an oven for curing. The operator was at the catch end removing pane after pane per the standard process. Sometimes a sheet can break in the brushwasher and it will cycle to the precenter – the operators will sometimes have to remove the glass from the pre-center to prevent it from going to the screen printer section. Sometimes the sheet can be cycled through based on the break pattern.

What happened

Our injured EE approached the precenter with the other catch operator and they pulled the broken sheet out of the machine together the glass sheet was about ¾ this size of a normal sheet. One operator gets on one side of the glass and the other stands on the other and they pull it out uniformly as if they were carried a sheet of plywood. Our injured EE was on the side closest to the destination for this broken glass. They started walking towards the glass scrap bin which is about 32-35’ away from the precenter. The other operator said they were unable to walk as fast so the injured EE was carrying the sheet by themselves at this point. The glass sheet is able to be lifted alone so the other operator let the injured employee continue walking. The operator got to the scrap bin the top of the bin is about 18” off the ground. The operator stood with their right side towards the bin and started to lift and toss the glass sheet into the bin while performing this the glass sheet broke an

Injury or illness

Medical paperwork states left arm laceration ulnar artery Laceration – 2”-3” below the elbow on the left forearm (palm side of forearm). The cut itself was about 2”-3” long as well. It ran across the arm rather than down the arm.

Object or substance involved

A pane of glass that was originally 5’x5’ and was broken to be around 5’x3.5’ in the machine. The pane was then further broken shattered more as it was tossed into the glass scrap bin. The edge of one side of this broken glass would have been what cut the employee.

Summary line

Laceration on left forearm from glass sheet.

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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.