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OSHA Injury Report: Cummins-Meritor Plainfield

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Cummins-Meritor Plainfield in Plainfield, IN 462E6 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Specialist in brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing.

Establishment
Cummins-Meritor Plainfield
Parent company
Meritor, Inc.
Street
849 Whitaker Road, Suite A
City
Plainfield
State
IN
ZIP
462E6
On-site location
De-lining
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Employee was running a manual de-lining machine removing rivets and consumed liners from a used brake shoe.

As the press punched through a rivet hole debris dust was blown up into the employee 's face. Employee began rubbing their eye and went to the bathroom to try and flush the debris out but was unsuccessful.

Embedded foreign body Left eye

Dirt debris from de-lining used brake shoes

Left Eye embedded foreign body

Job description
Production Specialist
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
336340 — Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
290
Total hours worked
683335
EIN
383354643
Establishment ID
1149752
Employer case #
CM-PLA-23-
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
14:40:00.000
Submitted
22FEB24:20:29:00

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.