Arlington, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Petmate
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Petmate in 800 West Stephens, Arlington, TX 76017 resulted in days away from work. Employee was processing Tech in bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Petmate
- Parent company
- Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- Street
- 800 West Stephens
- City
- Arlington
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 76017
- On-site location
- Press 6
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 17
Before the incident
Cleaning the drool off the machine
What happened
A Process Tech was working with 2 other techs to remove purge that had been leaking and had build up on press #6. They were using crowbars pinch bars and a sawsall to attempt to remove the purge that was blocking clogging a nozzel. At some point the purge can loose the pressure behind the nozzle pushed parts from the press out simultaneously with hot resin and struck one of the tech in his face and covered him in the hot resin on his face neck inside his mouth and his shoulders
Injury or illness
Thermal burns head neck face and shoulders broken jaw from impact of nozzle Plastic blown into mouth
Object or substance involved
Nozzle and hot plastic
Summary line
A Process Tech was working with 2 other techs to remove purge that had been leaking and had build up on press #6. They were using crowbars pinch bars and a sawsall to attempt to remove the purge that was blocking clogging a nozzel. At some point the purg
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Processing Tech
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 326199: Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 565
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 1,222,370
- Establishment ID
- 452815
- Employer case #
- 31
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 23:00
- Time of incident
- 02:25
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-27
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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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