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OSHA Injury Report: Ungerer & Company

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Ungerer & Company in Bethlehem, PA 18017 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was maintenance Mechanic in flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing.

Establishment
Ungerer & Company
Parent company
Ungerer & Company
Street
110 North Commerce way
City
Bethlehem
State
PA
ZIP
18017
On-site location
Spray Dry
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
6

Investigating issue with a hot water hose

IP was called to investigate an issue with a hot water hose. IP noted steam was ~3 4 full with little water. IP shut off steam opened water full. IP went to release steam pressure in hose resulting in steam engulfing hand. IP was wearing mechanics gloves not heat resistant gloves. [REDACTED] dept. provided on-site first aid (cleaned area applied burn gel wrapped hand). [REDACTED] Manager and [REDACTED] Specialist took IP to local treatment center as hand was blistering and IP was in significant pain.

Steam burn to right hand

Steam

[REDACTED] contact to right hand resulting in burn

Job description
Maintenance Mechanic
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
311942 — Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
117
Total hours worked
243360
Establishment ID
971467
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
6:23:00.000
Time of incident
11:10:00.000
Submitted
24JAN24:15:13:00

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.