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OSHA Injury Report: Emerald Packaging

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Emerald Packaging in Union City, CA 94587 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was maintenance Mechanic in flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing.

Establishment
Emerald Packaging
Parent company
Emerald Packaging
Street
33050 Western Ave.
City
Union City
State
CA
ZIP
94587
On-site location
Compression Room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Sweeping up spill absorbent

The employee was cleaning up an oil spill and had placed absorbent over the spill. Then while sweeping the spill he caught dust from the absorbent that got into his eyes despite wearing safety glasses.

Matter in Eye of Eye - Right

Gravel from spill absorbent

Matter inside Right Eye from gravel spill absorbent

Job description
Maintenance Mechanic
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
326112 — Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
260
Total hours worked
457680
EIN
941557703
Establishment ID
553217
Employer case #
381787
Date of incident
Shift started
9:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:15:00.000
Submitted
19JAN24:00:59:00

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.