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OSHA Injury Report: GREIF

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at GREIF in Mount Sterling, KY 40353 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machine Operator in drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing.

Establishment
GREIF
Parent company
GREIF
Street
215 Midland Trail
City
Mount Sterling
State
KY
ZIP
40353
On-site location
Machine 8
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
6

Removing a short shot from a machine

We were working on line eight to adjust the tops it had over filled I put it in basic position and got a barrel out and restarted it. The first barrel was okay. Second one was a short shot. I put it back in basic position to pen it up plastic fell inside machine. I put it in setup mode went to get the plastic I slipped on oil in between the blow pins and between them. When I did I put my arms out to catch myself and my left arm caught the mold and cut it. After that i came in office and contacted [REDACTED] and took right step went to hospital had to have 13 stitches.

Cut to the left tricep.

Corner of a mold.

Laceration to tricep from corner piece of a mold.

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
326199 — Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
55
Total hours worked
89056
Establishment ID
1136636
Employer case #
233487
Date of incident
Shift started
0:00:00.000
Time of incident
3:00:00.000
Submitted
19FEB24:15:35:00

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.