SAN ANTONIO, TX —
OSHA Injury Report: Improved Piping Products, Inc.
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Improved Piping Products, Inc. in SAN ANTONIO, TX 78218 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was injection operator in fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Improved Piping Products, Inc.
- Parent company
- IMPROVED PIPING PRODUCTS
- Street
- 5010 Space Center Drive
- City
- SAN ANTONIO
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 78218
- On-site location
- End of the heater
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 55
Before the incident
Employee was moving a medium size part from the heater to a pallet set up in front of the heater.
What happened
Employee grabbed the polyethylene part from the heater and turned his trunk to place part on the pallet. Slight bending over.
Injury or illness
Mild strain to lower lumber. Employee did not report injury for a couple days.
Object or substance involved
Continued bending and lifting of 20 to 25 pound parts.
Summary line
While moving a part from the heater to a pallet employee felt a pinch in the lower back.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Injection operator
- SOC code
- 51-4021 — Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- NAICS code
- 326122 — Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 100
- Total hours worked
- 189849
- EIN
- 942593029
- Establishment ID
- 1070566
- Employer case #
- 7
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 10:30:00.000
- Submitted
- 19JAN24:15:11:00
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.