Morganton, NC ·
OSHA Injury Report: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC in 105 Wamsutta Mill Rd, Morganton, NC 28655 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machinist in vehicle Power Train Components MFG.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC
- Parent company
- Cummins-Meritor
- Street
- 105 Wamsutta Mill Rd
- City
- Morganton
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28655
- On-site location
- Line 1 Final Bench Label Printer
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 12
- Days restricted or transferred
- 78
Before the incident
The employee was trying to cut labels that was stuck to a printer roller with his pocket knife
What happened
As the employee was trying to cut labels that was stuck to the label printer roller he stabbed himself in the palm of the hand with his pocketknife. He was holding the label printer with his left hand and his pocketknife slipped as he was cutting the labels. When the pocketknife slipped in went into the palm of his left hand.
Injury or illness
Laceration of left hand flexor tendon
Object or substance involved
A pocketknife
Summary line
Laceration of left hand flexor tendon
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Machinist
- SOC code
- 51-4041: Machinists
- NAICS code
- 336350: Vehicle Power Train Components MFG
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 84
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 155,593
- EIN
- 383354643
- Establishment ID
- 857357
- Employer case #
- CM01-23
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:45
- Time of incident
- 15:15
- 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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