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OSHA Injury Report: Ft. Smith Metal

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Ft. Smith Metal in Ft. Smith, AR 74901 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was lead Oper in showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing.

Establishment
Ft. Smith Metal
Parent company
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company
Street
4925 State Line Rd
City
Ft. Smith
State
AR
ZIP
74901
On-site location
Powder coat line
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Changing out plastic banding in order to resume production

Changing out plastic banding in order to resume production

Cut requiring stitches from using personal knife to cut banding

personal knife

Powder coat line fork lift driver was in process of changing out the plastic banding used when packaging Blue Bird frames. Each roll of banding contains 3 wraps of banding to prevent it from opening before use. Employee was unable to find the banding snip

Job description
Lead Oper
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
337215 — Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
140
Total hours worked
317630
EIN
560494395
Establishment ID
178297
Employer case #
INC12185
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:00:00.000
Submitted
29FEB24:20:20:00

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.