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OSHA Injury Report: Hickory Chair

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Hickory Chair in Hickory, NC 28602 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was utility Machine Operator in chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing.

Establishment
Hickory Chair
Parent company
RHF INVESTMENTS, INC.
Street
37 9th Street Place SE
City
Hickory
State
NC
ZIP
28602
On-site location
Machine Room
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
54

Operating the [REDACTED]-100 boring machine for vertical holes.

Had just switched boring machine from boring vertical holes to horizontal holes. Forgot to turn the cycle switch from vertical to horizontal. When employee stepped on the cycle pedal the vertical boring head came up and the drill bit cut right ring finger.

Cut- right ring finger

Drill bit on boring machine

Had just switched boring machine from boring vertical holes to horizontal holes. Forgot to turn the cycle switch from vertical to horizontal. When employee stepped on the cycle pedal this caused the vertical boring head to cut right ring finger

Job description
Utility Machine Operator
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
337121 — Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
438
Total hours worked
786322
EIN
462232330
Establishment ID
836303
Employer case #
23-3
Date of incident
Time of incident
10:40:00.000
Submitted
05JAN24:14:46:00

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.