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OSHA Injury Report: Advanced Materials Development

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

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.

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
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
5

Attempting to remove large diameter wire from a spool of wire

Attempting to remove wire off spool by disassembling flanges when the stored energy released and exploded outwards causing facial lacerations broken nose and concussion

Struck by: Face. Facial lacerations broken nose and concussion

Spool of wire exploding outwards and broken flange hitting employee in the face.

Laceration concussion broken nose from wire spool realeasing pressure and exploding. Struck By: Face

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
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00:00.000
Time of incident
13:40:00.000
Submitted
22FEB24:16:35:00

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.