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OSHA Injury Report: Welch's Food Inc. Lawton

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Welch's Food Inc. Lawton in 400 Walker Street, Lawton, MI 49065 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was processing Operator in juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing.

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Street
400 Walker Street
City
Lawton
State
MI
ZIP
49065
On-site location
Filter press platform
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Loading filter cell to the filter platform and closing a gate.

While closing the gate the employee was driving a forklift and crushed the hand between the forklift and the gate of the platform causing the injury

Laceration and fracture to the right middle finger

forklift and platform gate

Fracturedand laceration to the right middle finger

Job description
Processing Operator
SOC code
51-3099: Food Processing Workers, All Other
NAICS code
311421: Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
150
Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
316,421
Establishment ID
991198
Employer case #
2
Date of incident
Shift started
06:30
Time of incident
09:30
Filing year
2023
Submitted to OSHA
2024-03-01

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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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