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OSHA Injury Report: Palmer Manufacturing & Tank

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Palmer Manufacturing & Tank in Garden City, KS 67846 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was sandblaster in fabricated plate work manufacturing.

Establishment
Palmer Manufacturing & Tank
Street
2814 W. Jones Ave.
City
Garden City
State
KS
ZIP
67846
On-site location
Sandblast - Building 14
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

The employee was done sandblasting a steel tank then proceeded to walk to a designated area to blow off his personal protective equipment. A standard procedure before removing his PPE.

The employee experience an uncomfortable sensation in his left eye when he removed his blasting head gear and cape over his head. The employee flushed his eye numerous of times and believed he had removed it.

Abrasion on left eye due to the foreign body.

Spent Blast Media.

Left eye abrasion from Foreign Body Blast Media.

Job description
Sandblaster
SOC code
51-9021 — Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
NAICS code
332313 — Fabricated plate work manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
122
Total hours worked
263520
EIN
364902216
Establishment ID
481869
Employer case #
2023-2
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
9:30:00.000
Submitted
07MAR24:00:13:00

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.