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OSHA Injury Report: Charlotte Foam

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Charlotte Foam in Charlotte, NC 28273 resulted in days away from work. Employee was packer in foam polystyrene products manufacturing.

Establishment
Charlotte Foam
Parent company
Genpak LLC
Street
1001 Westinghouse Blvd
City
Charlotte
State
NC
ZIP
28273
On-site location
Grinding Area
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
120

Employee was grinding tray foam scrap at the main grinder

Employee stated she was bending over to get scrap from the scrap buggy and experienced back and leg pain.

Reported to have herniated and bulging disc to L4 L5

N A

Back and Leg pain after bending over

Job description
Packer
SOC code
51-9111 — Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
NAICS code
326140 — Foam polystyrene products manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
103
Total hours worked
173961
EIN
141803622
Establishment ID
344413
Employer case #
2023-01
Date of incident
Shift started
19:00:00.000
Submitted
27FEB24:11:36:00

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.