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OSHA Injury Report: Advanced Materials Development

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Advanced Materials Development in Columbia City, IN 46725 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was engineer in steel wire drawing.

Establishment
Advanced Materials Development
Parent company
Fort Wayne Metals Research Products LLC
Street
2300 E. Cardinal Drive
City
Columbia City
State
IN
ZIP
46725
On-site location
Wire Shop
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Trying to remove wire off spool.

Employee was attempting to remove wire off spool by disassembling flanges when stored energy released and exploded outwards causing facial lacerations.

Struck by: face

Spool of wire exploding outwards and broken flange hitting employee in the face.

Lacerations on face from stored energy from the spool of wire that released and exploded. Struck By: Face

Job description
Engineer
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
331222 — Steel wire drawing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
71
Total hours worked
132971
EIN
351186549
Establishment ID
577756
Employer case #
R2023-02
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00:00.000
Time of incident
13:40:00.000
Submitted
27FEB24:19:36:00

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.