Hamburg, MI —
OSHA Injury Report: Flexible Metal Inc.
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Flexible Metal Inc. in Hamburg, MI 48139 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was machine Operator in exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Flexible Metal Inc.
- Parent company
- Hyspan Precision Products
- Street
- 7495 E M-36
- City
- Hamburg
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 48139
- On-site location
- GM Components
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee was running the outlet bender in [REDACTED].
What happened
At approx. [REDACTED] employee started looking at the container of oil and looking back at his bottle of Mountain Dew he does this 4-5 times and even reaches out to grab both items multiple times. It looks like he 's deciding rather or not to drink the oil. He then looks up as if to make sure no one is looking grabs the container and takes a drink. He spits out the oil then preceeds to walk around for the next 10 [REDACTED] laughing and telling people what he did.
Injury or illness
Ingestion of chemicals via mouth
Object or substance involved
Oil
Summary line
Ingestion of chemicals
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Machine Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 336390 — Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 179
- Total hours worked
- 344647
- EIN
- 580682142
- Establishment ID
- 1263423
- Employer case #
- 10
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:31
- Time of incident
- 9:27
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 20JAN2025:19:54:00
Source
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.