Northbridge, MA —
OSHA Injury Report: Polyfoam LLC
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Polyfoam LLC in Northbridge, MA 01534 resulted in days away from work. Employee was preExpander Operator in cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Polyfoam LLC
- Parent company
- Polyfoam LLC, an Altor Solutions company
- Street
- 2355 Providence road
- City
- Northbridge
- State
- MA
- ZIP
- 01534
- On-site location
- Pre-expansion room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 38
Before the incident
Employee was inserting a suction wand into a large bag of (EPS) expandable polystyrene bead
What happened
During the time the IA placed the suction wand into the EPS bag static charge ignited the EPS that contains pentane gas
Injury or illness
Second degree burns to both arms and around face and neck area.
Object or substance involved
Pentane gas that is contained in the EPS bead
Summary line
second degree burns to arms and neck pentane gas
Employee and industry
- Job description
- PreExpander Operator
- SOC code
- 51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 326140 — Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 120
- Total hours worked
- 229060
- EIN
- 845102726
- Establishment ID
- 1077086
- Employer case #
- 4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 11:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 13:30:00.000
- Submitted
- 18JAN24:20:37:00
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.