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OSHA Injury Report: American Blanching Co

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at American Blanching Co in Fitzgerald, GA 31750 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was blanching Department Traffic Lead in seeds, snack (e.g., canned, cooked, roasted, salted) manufacturing.

Establishment
American Blanching Co
Parent company
American Blanching Company, Inc.
Street
155 Rip Wiley Road
City
Fitzgerald
State
GA
ZIP
31750
On-site location
In the parking lot in front of shipping dock number 12
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Checking the truck driver out who had just been loaded at dock 12.

After the loaded trailer was sealed with a security seal the driver of the truck pulling the trailer asked to get into the trailer to apply load locks to secure the load during shipment. The EE attempted to remove the seal manually without securing a proper cutting tool to extract the seal. As a result the sharp edges of the aluminum seal lacerated the EE 's right index finger requiring sutures.

Laceration of the right index finger

An aluminum security seal

EE incurred a laceration of the right index finger when attempting to remove a security seal from the door of a loaded trailer without the use of a proper tool.

Job description
Blanching Department Traffic Lead
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
311911 — Seeds, snack (e.g., canned, cooked, roasted, salted) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
356
Total hours worked
667613
EIN
581926957
Establishment ID
580944
Employer case #
24_506
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
8:30:00.000
Submitted
29FEB24:18:56:00

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.