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OSHA Injury Report: Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania in Tamaqua, PA 18252 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Packer in bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing.

Establishment
Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
Parent company
Reynolds Consumer Products
Street
31 Progress Avenue
City
Tamaqua
State
PA
ZIP
18252
On-site location
Conversion Department Cell 4
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

EE was picking up a pallet in each hand and as she was carrying the pallets they were rubbing against her arm.

Pallets were rubbing against arm and a piece of wood poked through her shirt and into her arm. She believes at that point she received a splinter.

Foreign body in forearm.

Wood Pallet.

Foreign body (splinter) in forearm

Job description
Production Packer
SOC code
51-9111 — Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
NAICS code
326111 — Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
302
Total hours worked
624923
EIN
942906693
Establishment ID
59128
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00:00.000
Time of incident
18:30:00.000
Submitted
27FEB24:15:37:00

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.