Morristown, TN —
OSHA Injury Report: CDBS (Meritor Heavy Vehicle System LLC)
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at CDBS (Meritor Heavy Vehicle System LLC) in Morristown, TN 37813 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was forging 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
- 2500 #1 Press Billet Feed Unit
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 49
Before the incident
Employee was lifting 22.18 lb. steel billets onto a conveyor track.
What happened
EE was running the 2500 #1 press. There were approximately 10-12 billets weighing around 22.1 lbs. each remaining in the frolic bowl that would not feed around the bowl. EE tried adjusting the bowl speed to get the billets moving but it had no effect. He had to get into the frolic bowl to put the billets on the rails by hand to get them to feed around the bowl. While EE was picking up the billets a pinch was felt in the left shoulder. After the EE started running the next new job EE started feeling a sharp pain in the left shoulder and neck.
Injury or illness
Left Shoulder Strain.
Object or substance involved
Steel Billet.
Summary line
EE had to get into the frolic bowl to put the billets on the rails manually as they wouldn 't feed automatically. While picking up the billets EE felt a pinch in the left shoulder and later started feeling a sharp pain in the left shoulder and neck.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Forging Technician
- SOC code
- 51-4022 — Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plas
- 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 #
- 6
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 23:00
- Time of incident
- 0:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 27FEB26:20:11:00
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.