Columbia City, IN —
OSHA Injury Report: Advanced Materials Development
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Advanced Materials Development in Columbia City, IN 46725 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was engineering Tech in steel wire drawing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Advanced Materials Development
- Parent company
- Fort Wayne Metals Research Products LLC
- Street
- 2300 E. Cardinal Drive
- City
- Columbia City
- State
- IN
- ZIP
- 46725
- On-site location
- Wire Shop
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 5
Before the incident
Attempting to remove large diameter wire from a spool of wire
What happened
Attempting to remove wire off spool by disassembling flanges when the stored energy released and exploded outwards causing facial lacerations broken nose and concussion
Injury or illness
Struck by: Face. Facial lacerations broken nose and concussion
Object or substance involved
Spool of wire exploding outwards and broken flange hitting employee in the face.
Summary line
Laceration concussion broken nose from wire spool realeasing pressure and exploding. Struck By: Face
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Engineering Tech
- SOC code
- 17-3029 — Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
- NAICS code
- 331222 — Steel wire drawing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 71
- Total hours worked
- 132971
- EIN
- 351186549
- Establishment ID
- 577756
- Employer case #
- R2023-03
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 8:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 13:40:00.000
- Submitted
- 22FEB24:16:35:00
Source
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.