Lawton, MI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Welchs Lawton
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Welchs Lawton in 400 Walker St., Lawton, MI 49065 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was processing Operator in fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Welchs Lawton
- Parent company
- Welch Foods Inc
- Street
- 400 Walker St.
- City
- Lawton
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 49065
- On-site location
- Batching Platform
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 6
Before the incident
Weighing up and transferring buckets to the kettles
What happened
Lifting buckets of ingredients and lifted unevenly. Felt a tweak in the back and shoulder and instantly set buckets back down. Continued to work but the pain shortly became unbearable and reported it to supervisor. Pain was in lower back and up to mid back and right shoulder and neck.
Injury or illness
Lower Back Sprain Strain
Object or substance involved
Heavy buckets of ingredients
Summary line
lower back Sprain Strain
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Processing Operator
- SOC code
- 51-3099: Food Processing Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 311421: Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 150
- Total hours worked
- 257716
- EIN
- 160998906
- Establishment ID
- 1258573
- Employer case #
- 24-07
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 12:00
- Time of incident
- 16:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 17JAN2025:12:56:00
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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