Morristown, TN —
OSHA Injury Report: CDBS (Meritor Heavy Vehicle System LLC)
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at CDBS (Meritor Heavy Vehicle System LLC) in Morristown, TN 37813 resulted in days away from work. Employee was maintenance Technician in transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- CDBS (Meritor Heavy Vehicle System LLC)
- Parent company
- Meritor Heavy Vehicle System LLC
- Street
- 1 Rockwell Dr
- City
- Morristown
- State
- TN
- ZIP
- 37813
- On-site location
- Heat Treat Furnace #4
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 180
Before the incident
Repairing a Heat Treat Furnace.
What happened
At approximately [REDACTED] a maintenance technician was working to repair Furnace #4 in the Heat Treat Department. While inside the furnace making the repair the air cylinders actuated causing the elevator inside the furnace to move upward. This trapped the employee against the roof of the furnace until another maintenance employee was able to initiate an air release. The employee was then removed from the furnace and taken by EMS to the hospital to seek emergency medical care.
Injury or illness
Multiple chest and hip fractures and other serious internal injuries.
Object or substance involved
Furnace Elevator.
Summary line
EE was performing repair to furnace track when the elevator platform inside the furnace actuated and entrapped him against the ceiling of the furnace. EE has multiple fractures to ribs and pelvis one punctured lung.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Maintenance Technician
- SOC code
- 49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- NAICS code
- 336350 — Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 270
- Total hours worked
- 573074
- Establishment ID
- 1519998
- Employer case #
- 4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 14:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 27FEB26:18:46:00
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.