Niagara Falls, NY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Saint-Gobain Ceramics
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Saint-Gobain Ceramics in 22-23 Acheson Drive, Niagara Falls, NY 14303 resulted in days away from work. Employee was operator in refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), nonclay, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Saint-Gobain Ceramics
- Street
- 22-23 Acheson Drive
- City
- Niagara Falls
- State
- NY
- ZIP
- 14303
- On-site location
- Forming
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 14
Before the incident
Employee was using overhead crane to lift isopress pin.
What happened
when raising the ISO press load from the 24 vault the veritical support from cage got caught on the horizontal piston tunnel and fell off into the pit. The cage was continued to be raised from the vessel. The uneven weight of the load caused part of the cage to shift and strike operator in the head.
Injury or illness
Head injury
Object or substance involved
Cage
Summary line
head struck overhead cage
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Operator
- SOC code
- 51-9041: Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 327120: Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), nonclay, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 131
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 240,717
- Establishment ID
- 1139933
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-26
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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