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OSHA Injury Report: Extruflex North America, LLC

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at Extruflex North America, LLC in 169 Business Center Dr, BIRMINGHAM, AL 35244 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was temporary Employee in polyvinyl film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing.

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Where did this happen?

Establishment
Extruflex North America, LLC
Parent company
Extruflex North America, LLC
Street
169 Business Center Dr
City
BIRMINGHAM
State
AL
ZIP
35244
On-site location
Extrusion Grinder Area

What was the outcome?

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

Before the incident

Employee was feeding strips of PVC material into the grinder.

What happened

Material was hanging up and employee was prodding the material with a PVC pipe to free it. The material was freed and was captured by the grinder blade. This caused the slack in the material to tighten suddenly. The sudden tension put force on the PVC pipe and accelerated it towards the employee.

Injury or illness

The employees right eyebrow was lacerated by the end of the pipe.

Object or substance involved

PVC Pipe

Summary line

Struck in face by PVC pipe

Employee and industry

Job description
Temporary Employee
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
326113 — Polyvinyl film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
24
Total hours worked
50383
EIN
990361508
Establishment ID
1093701
Employer case #
0724DB

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
15:00:00.000
Filing year
2023
Submitted
30JAN24:21:00:00

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.