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OSHA Injury Report: RAHCO RUBBER INC

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at RAHCO RUBBER INC in Des Plaines, IL 60018 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was mACHINE OPERATOR in rubber bands manufacturing.

Establishment
RAHCO RUBBER INC
Parent company
Rahco Rubber Inc
Street
1633 Birchwood Ave
City
Des Plaines
State
IL
ZIP
60018
On-site location
MACHINE- PRODUCTION FLOOR
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
38

Holding heavy cables - working with another employee.

The was employee was working together with another coworker in the machine when opening the mold to remove the head and cables his coworker lost his grip and dropped the mold. Employee tried holding on to the cables and felt pain on the lower half of his inner arm.

Strain left upper arm.

Holding heavy cables

LEFT UPPER ARM

Job description
MACHINE OPERATOR
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
326299 — Rubber bands manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
75
Total hours worked
151118
EIN
362746143
Establishment ID
1076707
Employer case #
2
Date of incident
Shift started
15:30:00.000
Time of incident
22:30:00.000
Submitted
18JAN24:17:28:00

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.