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OSHA Injury Report: ArtiFlex Manufacturing Broadway Campus

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at ArtiFlex Manufacturing Broadway Campus in 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.

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
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

[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.

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.

Lacerated left forearm and lacerated left upper thigh

Disintegrated cut-off wheel

Lacerated left forearm and left thigh from cut-off wheel

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
Avg employees
84
Total hours worked
182187
Establishment ID
917369
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
10:15
Filing year
2024
Submitted
20JAN2025:12:15:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.