North Vernon, IN —
OSHA Injury Report: Hilex Poly - North Vernon Bag
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Hilex Poly - North Vernon Bag in North Vernon, IN 47265 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was winder Operator in grocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Hilex Poly - North Vernon Bag
- Parent company
- Hilex Poly
- Street
- 1001 N Madison Ave
- City
- North Vernon
- State
- IN
- ZIP
- 47265
- On-site location
- Extruder 5
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
EE was removing plastic from an extruder stabilizer bar on extruder #5. While exerting a lot of force to pull the plastic up it tore and the EE 's right hand flew up over their head and struck an overhead pipe bracket.
What happened
EE was removing plastic from an extruder stabilizer bar on extruder #5. While exerting a lot of force to pull the plastic up it tore and the EE 's right hand flew up over their head and struck an overhead pipe bracket causing a laceration to the outside base of their right pinky finger.
Injury or illness
Laceration outside base of right pinky finger.
Object or substance involved
Overhead pipe bracket.
Summary line
Stabilizer bar - Left hand laceration
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Winder Operator
- SOC code
- 9999 — Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 326111 — Grocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 263
- Total hours worked
- 604911
- EIN
- 562379442
- Establishment ID
- 825011
- Employer case #
- 11
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 19:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 2:00:00.000
- Submitted
- 13FEB24:22:55:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.