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OSHA Injury Report: Silgan Plastics

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at Silgan Plastics in 2 Industrial Park, Flora, IL 62839 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was machine Operator in bottles, plastics, manufacturing.

Where did this happen?

Establishment
Silgan Plastics
Parent company
Silgan Plastics
Street
2 Industrial Park
City
Flora
State
IL
ZIP
62839
On-site location
Production Floor Machine 110

What was the outcome?

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

Before the incident

The employee was helping a operator in training scrape core rods on machine 110.

What happened

The employee who was in training pulled the safety gate down too soon while the employee was still scraping the rods. The trainee hit the employee in the top of the head with the safety gate.

Injury or illness

Small contusion to the top of the employees head.

Object or substance involved

Safety gate on machine 110

Summary line

Safety gate was shut on the top of her head

Employee and industry

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
326160 — Bottles, plastics, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
48
Total hours worked
88935
Establishment ID
1025136
Employer case #
1

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
8:30:00.000
Filing year
2023
Submitted
03MAR24:07:03:00

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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.