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OSHA Injury Report: Rite Hite Clare Facility

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Rite Hite Clare Facility in Clare, MI 48617 resulted in days away from work. Employee was welder in machine shops.

Establishment
Rite Hite Clare Facility
Parent company
Rite Hite Holdings Corp.
Street
635 Industrial Drive
City
Clare
State
MI
ZIP
48617
On-site location
Welding Bay 11
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1

Employee just finished welding.

After welding he removed his long sleeve shirt and notice he had a puncture in his right arm He assumes a wire wheel brush piece got into his shirt and through moving around it stuck him in the right arm from earlier in the day when he was using the wire wheel. Removing wire piece through first aid did not work per urgent care he has been referred to general surgery.

Wire wheel bristle stuck in arm under the skin puncture.

Wire wheel bristle stuck in arm under the skin

Right Arm Shoulder area wire wheel bristle

Job description
Welder
SOC code
51-4121 — Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
NAICS code
332710 — Machine shops
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
120
Total hours worked
236923
EIN
391800404
Establishment ID
1073668
Employer case #
55C747790
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:00:00.000
Submitted
15JAN24:15:15:00

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.