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OSHA Injury Report: Myers Industries South Bend

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Myers Industries South Bend in South Bend, IN 46628 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was material handler in awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing.

Establishment
Myers Industries South Bend
Parent company
Myers Industries
Street
3300 North Kenmore
City
South Bend
State
IN
ZIP
46628
On-site location
Outside the south shipping dock by the trash compactor
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Taking trash hopper to the trash compactor via forklift.

The material handler was dumping an older style trash hopper that had no chain and required the handler to push up on the bottom of the hopper in order to empty into the compactor. The handler pushed the hopper up and emptied the trash into the compactor but left his right hand on the lower framing as the hopper came back down. The handlers right middle and ring fingers were pinched smashed by the hopper coming down and resting on the framing of the hopper.

Right hand.

The plastic hopper used for collecting trash.

smashed fingers

Job description
Material handler
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
326199 — Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
117
Total hours worked
225208
Establishment ID
921886
Employer case #
5
Date of incident
Shift started
15:00:00.000
Time of incident
20:00:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:16:31:00

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.