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OSHA Injury Report: Liberty Tire Recycling - Salt Lake City, UT

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Liberty Tire Recycling - Salt Lake City, UT in Salt Lake City, UT 84116 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was machine Operator in tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
Liberty Tire Recycling - Salt Lake City, UT
Parent company
Liberty Tire Recycling, LLC
Street
1398 Beck St.
City
Salt Lake City
State
UT
ZIP
84116
On-site location
Production Building B
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
13

Employee was helping a mechanic change the blades on a shredding machine and was setting a shredder blade on the back of the rotor

The shredder rotor turned back while the employee had his hand on the blade and it was pinched between the blade and the back knife bed. The machine was locked out.

Laceration to tip of right thumb

Thumb pinched between knife blade and machine rotor. Equipment LOTO 'ed

Right thumb laceration from deenergized rotating equipment

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
423930 — Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
118
Total hours worked
283609
EIN
204023461
Establishment ID
1312289
Employer case #
5
Date of incident
Shift started
5:30
Time of incident
15:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
03MAR26:08:32:00

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.