Rossford, OH ·
OSHA Injury Report: Pilkington North America, Inc.
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Pilkington North America, Inc. in 140 Dixie Highway, Rossford, OH 43460 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was maintenance in flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Pilkington North America, Inc.
- Parent company
- Pilkington North America, Inc.
- Street
- 140 Dixie Highway
- City
- Rossford
- State
- OH
- ZIP
- 43460
- On-site location
- Batch Plant Bucket Elevator
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 21
Before the incident
Spray painting buckets on Batch Plant Bucket Elevator
What happened
Maintenance Technician was about to place a spray paint mark on a couple of buckets on the batch plant bucket elevator to check for full travel after repairs to the bucket elevator had been completed. The spray can was placed too close to the moving bucket conveyor belt and came into contact with a bucket. The upward momentum created a pinch of the finger between the spray can and the bucket elevator steel housing.
Injury or illness
Laceration to distal right index finger requiring 13 sutures.
Object or substance involved
Spray can and bucket elevator steel housing.
Summary line
The employee was marking buckets on the batch plant bucket elevator when the spray can was placed too close to the moving bucket making contact with his right distal index finger requiring 13 sutures.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Maintenance
- SOC code
- 49-9041: Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- NAICS code
- 327211: Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 443
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 838,130
- Establishment ID
- 1527220
- Employer case #
- 25-3
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:30
- Time of incident
- 14:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-03-02
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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