Grand Rapids, MI ·
OSHA Injury Report: ArtiFlex Manufacturing Broadway Campus
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at ArtiFlex Manufacturing Broadway Campus in 731 Broadway Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was die Builder Apprentice in dies and die holders for metal cutting and forming (except threading) manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- ArtiFlex Manufacturing Broadway Campus
- Parent company
- ArtiFlex Manufacturing
- Street
- 731 Broadway Ave. NW
- City
- Grand Rapids
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 49504
- On-site location
- Tryout Area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
[REDACTED] was grinding on a die with a horizontal die grinder and a cut-off wheel. She scored and snapped off the setup ear and was going to grind away the rough section left behind.
What happened
As she side-loaded the wheel it disintegrated and chunks struck her in her left forearm and left thigh causing lacerations that required a total of 8 sutures to close. The wheel remnants also struck her face shield and left a gouge out of the shield.
Injury or illness
Lacerated left forearm and lacerated left upper thigh
Object or substance involved
Disintegrated cut-off wheel
Summary line
Lacerated left forearm and left thigh from cut-off wheel
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Die Builder Apprentice
- SOC code
- 51-4072: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- NAICS code
- 333514: Dies and die holders for metal cutting and forming (except threading) manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 84
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 182,187
- Establishment ID
- 917369
- Employer case #
- 3
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 10:15
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-01-20
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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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