Fort Wayne, IN ·
OSHA Injury Report: Sabert Advanced Technological Center
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Sabert Advanced Technological Center in 8510 Ardmore Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46809 resulted in days away from work. Employee was operator in bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Sabert Advanced Technological Center
- Parent company
- Sabert Corporation
- Street
- 8510 Ardmore Rd
- City
- Fort Wayne
- State
- IN
- ZIP
- 46809
- On-site location
- ATC 2 Pit Grinder
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 2
Before the incident
Helping to clean the grinder
What happened
I went down into the grinder pit with another operator ([REDACTED])as it is required that 2 people be in the grinder pit at the same time as a buddy system. Both of us locked out the grinder. We had some questions around opening the grinder as it is not our normal line. therefor the grinder is not as familiar. [REDACTED] went to find the material handler ([REDACTED]) that has more experience with this grinder. [REDACTED] came down and answered the questions. The grinder was mostly clean and open. [REDACTED] felt an air wand was needed to clean more thorough so he went upstairs to retrieve one and came back down. [REDACTED] then locked out the machine and began rotating the arbor and the arbor stopped suddenly which meant there was some sort of jam. As [REDACTED] worked to unclear the jam parts fell out of the grinder to the floor. [REDACTED] leaned down to pick up the parts and my intentions were to put my hands on the top of the grinder but I judged it wrong and my hands went in betwe
Injury or illness
Laceration
Object or substance involved
Grinder blades
Summary line
Laceration
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4199: Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 326199: Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 86
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 174,753
- Establishment ID
- 1097233
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 11:00
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-01
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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