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OSHA Injury Report: Materion - Buffalo

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Materion - Buffalo in Buffalo, NY 14214 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was electroplater in nonferrous metal shapes (except aluminum, copper) made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased nonferrous metal.

Establishment
Materion - Buffalo
Parent company
Materion
Street
2978 Main Street
City
Buffalo
State
NY
ZIP
14214
On-site location
Benderson Building Grinding Room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Vacuuming the area

While cleaning up for the week during endofweek shutdown an employee was vacuuming around the grinding wheels During this process his hand made contact with a grinding wheel while it was spinning This created a cut on the employees left hand at the base of his thumb

Nature of InjuryIllness Cutlaceration Body Parts ThumbLeft

Ceramic Grinding Wheel

Nature of InjuryIllness Cutlaceration Cause of InjuryIllnessContacted by Body Parts ThumbLeft Object Substance Ceramic Grinding Wheel

Job description
Electroplater
SOC code
51-4193 — Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
NAICS code
331491 — Nonferrous metal shapes (except aluminum, copper) made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased nonferrous metal
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
180
Total hours worked
372434
Establishment ID
986775
Employer case #
US-EM - BU
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
12:45:00.000
Submitted
26FEB24:12:44:00

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.