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OSHA Injury Report: Viaflex - Sioux Falls, SD

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Viaflex - Sioux Falls, SD in Sioux Falls, SD 57104 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Supervisor I in plastics film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing.

Establishment
Viaflex - Sioux Falls, SD
Parent company
Viaflex
Street
821 W Algonquin St
City
Sioux Falls
State
SD
ZIP
57104
On-site location
Sioux Falls SD
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Team member was cleaning extruder tips prior to start up. He had a heat glove on his right hand with the die tip cleaner.

He used his left hand without a glove to steady his right. An operator had turned the extruder on from the main screen not knowing the team member was cleaning the tips and hot poly shot out and burned his thumb.

Burn to left thumb from hot poly. Potential for infection.

Hot poly from extruder tips.

Burn to left thumb from hot poly

Job description
Production Supervisor I
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
326113 — Plastics film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
273
Total hours worked
658447
EIN
611895716
Establishment ID
1100477
Employer case #
8
Date of incident
Time of incident
6:30:00.000
Submitted
16FEB24:14:40:00

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.