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OSHA Injury Report: NISCO-Topeka

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at NISCO-Topeka in Topeka, IN 46571 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was leader in mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing.

Establishment
NISCO-Topeka
Parent company
Nishikawa Cooper LLC
Street
324 Morrow Street
City
Topeka
State
IN
ZIP
46571
On-site location
SDM Line 1
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Rotating drill head assembly manually on drill and notch machine to put in home position for adjustments.

Associate alleges she thought she had drill head assembly in home position. When she let go drill head assembly rotated down via gravity and struck forearm.

Puncture Wound Right Forearm

Drill Bit

Puncture R. Forearm Contact With Drill Bit

Job description
Leader
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
326291 — Mechanical rubber goods (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
526
Total hours worked
1109747
EIN
351763958
Establishment ID
209236
Employer case #
7
Date of incident
Shift started
4:30:00.000
Time of incident
11:00:00.000
Submitted
02MAR24:20:47:00

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.