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OSHA Injury Report: Ditch Witch

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Ditch Witch in Perry, OK 73077 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machine Operator in construction machinery manufacturing.

Establishment
Ditch Witch
Parent company
Charles Machine Works
Street
1959 W. Fir
City
Perry
State
OK
ZIP
73077
On-site location
080 C&SP Nights 2
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
2

Making parts

Employee was pressing a bearing into roller. The bearing became wedged and he tried to press it on the high side causing it to pop out and strike him in the mouth.

He had a laceration on the outside and inside of his lip and also had a broken tooth.

Bearing

Pressing bearing and it popped out and struck employee in the mouth.

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
333120 — Construction machinery manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
1518
Total hours worked
2993775
Establishment ID
65182
Employer case #
23-013
Date of incident
Shift started
20:00:00.000
Time of incident
1:10:00.000
Submitted
05JAN24:13:53:00

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.