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OSHA Injury Report: Kaufman Trailers, LLC

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Kaufman Trailers, LLC in Lexington, NC 27292 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was finisher in automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing.

Establishment
Kaufman Trailers, LLC
Parent company
Kaufman Trailers, LLC
Street
702 North Silver St
City
Lexington
State
NC
ZIP
27292
On-site location
Finishing Bay
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
174

He was prepping a trailer to floor. It was sitting in his bay with just the exposed frame i.e. no wood floor.

While stepping through the crossmembers he tripped and his leg got wedged in between a crossmember and the headboard of the trailer. This caused him to fall forward.

While falling forward his left leg stayed stationary and he fell almost to the ground (past waist-high) hyperextending his leg at the knee.

The channel steel crossmembers of the trailer.

Left knee injury from fall

Job description
Finisher
SOC code
51-4023 — Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
NAICS code
336214 — Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
124
Total hours worked
228885
EIN
882743153
Establishment ID
1090595
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
6:48:00.000
Time of incident
7:40:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:19:55:00

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.