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OSHA Injury Report: General Shale Moncure

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at General Shale Moncure in Moncure, NC 27559 resulted in days away from work. Employee was pug Operator in bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing.

Establishment
General Shale Moncure
Parent company
General Shale Brick, Inc.
Street
300 Brick Plant Rd.
City
Moncure
State
NC
ZIP
27559
On-site location
Millroom
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
59

Employee was setting up the extruder on line A.

Raw material had dried out inside the extruder and was stuck. Injured party added water to loosen up dirt unsuccessfully. Injured party began loosing bolts around the extruder die cap which allowed a instant release of pressurized dirt brick oil and steam in the direction he was working.

Burns to face and eyes.

Dirt Oil

Burns to face eyes

Job description
Pug Operator
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
327120 — Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
56
Total hours worked
117422
EIN
200454569
Establishment ID
116352
Employer case #
20233504
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
16:45:00.000
Submitted
14FEB24:19:40:00

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.