2,042,423Injury reports 130,778Establishments Most recent incident 2025-12-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Injury Report: Owens-Illinois Glass Container

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Owens-Illinois Glass Container in Zanesville, OH 43701 resulted in days away from work. Employee was maintenance Apprentice in glass packaging containers manufacturing.

Establishment
Owens-Illinois Glass Container
Parent company
Owens-Illinois Glass Container
Street
1700 State Street
City
Zanesville
State
OH
ZIP
43701
On-site location
Maintenance
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
7

Two maintenance employees were dumping a scrap metal drum into the scrap dumpster with a drum tipper attachment on a forklift and while one employee was manually rotating the drum forward.

The employee’s thumb was caught between the tipper handle and the side of the tipper.

Crushing and laceration to right thumb.

Drum tipper

An employee fractured and lacerated their thumb while manually rotating the a scrap hopper drum forward when their right thumb was caught between tipper handle and tipper.

Job description
Maintenance Apprentice
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
327213 — Glass packaging containers manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
380
Total hours worked
741635
Establishment ID
1153354
Employer case #
12
Date of incident
Shift started
23:00:00.000
Time of incident
2:30:00.000
Submitted
23FEB24:18:41:00

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.