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OSHA Injury Report: Hickory - Flexible Packaging - E025

Injury · Days away from work

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.

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
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
5

Taking bag stacks off of bag machine 22

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.

Laceration and abrasion of right hand

Bag 22 machine wicket

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

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
Date of incident
Shift started
15:00
Time of incident
15:45
Filing year
2025
Submitted
03MAR26:17:57:00

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.