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OSHA Injury Report: Fort Wayne

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, IN 46809 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was compounder in profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing.

Establishment
Fort Wayne
Parent company
Mitsubishi Chemical Group
Street
2710 American Way
City
Fort Wayne
State
IN
ZIP
46809
On-site location
Large Mixer
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
36

Employee was leaning into the bowl and wiping out to clean it with a shop rag. The employee then reached overhead and across to access all areas of the mixing bowl.

The employee then reached overhead and across to access all areas of the mixinb bowl. While in a stretched-out position the employee felt a pull in the right shoulder. He then stopped for a second moved the shoulder around and tried to repeat the motion. Upon this action he felt another sharp pain.

Right Shoulder Muscle Strain due to reaching stretching in an awkward body position.

Mixing Bowl

Muscle Strain to Left Shoulder from over extension

Job description
Compounder
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
326121 — Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
93
Total hours worked
212802
EIN
510406796
Establishment ID
65955
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
9:00:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:20:56:00

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.