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OSHA Injury Report: New Indy Catawba

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at New Indy Catawba in South Carolina, SC 29704 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was woodyard Utility Operator in paperboard (e.g., can/drum stock, container board, corrugating medium, folding carton stock, linerboard, tube) manufacturing.

Establishment
New Indy Catawba
Parent company
New Indy Containerboard
Street
5300 Cureton Ferry Rd
City
South Carolina
State
SC
ZIP
29704
On-site location
West Woodyard Chipper Building
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
58

Putting on PPE Level 5 Cut Resistant gloves Level 5 Cut Resistant sleeves Cut Resistant Apron and Cut Resistant Chaps

A Woodyard Operator was changing the West Woodyard Chipper knives when he sustained a strain to his right middle finger.A Woodyard Utility working with the Operator removed the knives from the wooden crate placed them on the concrete at the base of the Chipper and leaned them up against the grate work platform. The Operator would then pick them up and lean them in front of the Chipper base to be inserted in the Chipper disc. The Operator standing on the work platform leaned over and picked up the first Chipper knife when it slipped in his grasp. As the Operator tried to catch the knife his finger went into the knife cut-out as the Chipper knife struck the Chipper base. The Operators finger was caught between the Chipper knife and the Chipper base.

Strain or Tear of Finger Hand Right Side

Parts and Materials - Machine tool and electric parts - Chipper knife and Chipper base

Strain or Tear of Finger Hand Right Side - Directly harmed by: Parts and Materials - Machine tool and electric parts - Chipper knife slipped EE tried to catch knife when hand finger caught between Chipper knife and Chipper base while trying to cat

Job description
Woodyard Utility Operator
SOC code
53-7199 — Material Moving Workers, All Other
NAICS code
322130 — Paperboard (e.g., can/drum stock, container board, corrugating medium, folding carton stock, linerboard, tube) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
409
Total hours worked
1025547
EIN
371694793
Establishment ID
1211219
Employer case #
FY23-00298
Date of incident
Shift started
7:30:00.000
Time of incident
12:20:00.000
Submitted
01MAR24:22:45:00

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.