Hickory, NC —
OSHA Injury Report: Hickory - Flexible Packaging - E025
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Hickory - Flexible Packaging - E025 in Hickory, NC 28602 resulted in days away from work. Employee was pouch Assistant I in flexible Packaging.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Hickory - Flexible Packaging - E025
- Parent company
- Sonoco
- Street
- 1246 Main Ave SE
- City
- Hickory
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28602
- On-site location
- Bag Wicketer Machine 22
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 5
Before the incident
Taking bag stacks off of bag machine 22
What happened
Employee was running [REDACTED] bag stacks had hit the end of pin conveyor tripped the alarm and stopped the machine. Another employee came over to help figure out why the alarm was sounding. She pressed the reset button on the machine at the same time the employee was removing bag stacks off the end of the pin conveyor. The machine indexed and pins indexed to the right and caught his right hand.
Injury or illness
Laceration and abrasion of right hand
Object or substance involved
Bag 22 machine wicket
Summary line
Employee was running [REDACTED] bag stacks had hit the end of pin conveyor tripped the alarm and stopped the machine. Another employee came over to help figure out why the alarm was sounding. She pressed the reset button on the machine at the same time
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Pouch Assistant I
- SOC code
- 51-9198 — Helpers--Production Workers
- NAICS code
- 326112 — Flexible Packaging
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 131
- Total hours worked
- 68222
- EIN
- 570248420
- Establishment ID
- 494963
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 15:00
- Time of incident
- 15:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 03MAR26:17:57:00
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.