Mattress Manufacturing
Industry Summary
With employment in this industry reaching new highs, the 535 businesses operating in the Mattress Manufacturing industry are sure to make protecting the estimated total of 23,393 employees reported in 2015 a top priority. With OSHA reported accident rates of less than that of the the Other Furniture Related Product Manufacturing Industry as a whole, things have been relatively safe over the past five years.
OSHA investigators arrived in MONROE, OH on Monday, December 14th 2015 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at SSB Manufacturing. A had been injured when the injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
OSHA IDSevere Injury Report
Accident Date2015-12-14
Accident DegreeInjury
NarrativeAn employee cut their right little finger with a circular saw.
On Thursday, May 24th 2012 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Rancho Dominguez, CA which had occured previously at Diamond Mattress Inc. A Laborer had been injured when the worker's arm was crushed and lacerated in machine
OSHA ID202531315
Accident Date2012-04-26
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 4:00 p.m. on April 26, 2012, an employee was working for a firm in Rancho Dominguez, CA. The company manufactured coil spring mattresses. The coils were formed and then individually wrapped in a special paper. Those parts were then glued to strips of paper, and then the entire subassembly was covered in the same paper-like fabric. Finally, this assembly was rolled and compressed into a roll for storage. The machine in which all this was accomplished had large inrunning rollers. It was guarded on three sides with interlocked doors, and the front of the machine was guarded with a table. The worker removed this table in order to rethread the paper on some rollers. He was working alone at the time of the incident, and he was not an authorized operator of the machine. As he rethreaded the fabric between the rollers, his fingers and then his arm were caught in the rollers. His right arm sustained a crushing injury, including lacerations.
The accident investigation below was opened on Wednesday, June 15th 2011 by OSHA representitives in Middletown, NY which had occured previously at Corsicana Bedding, Inc.. A Packaging had been killed when the employee was crushed in packaging and filling machine
OSHA ID200742658
Accident Date2011-06-14
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeOn June 14, 2011, an Employee, working for a bedding company, was crushed by a packaging and filling machine. The employee did not survive the accident. No other details were provided in the original abstract.
OSHA Inspection Activity
Accident Rate
5 Year Average
0.68
Last 12 Months
0
Reporting Statistics
Inspection Records: 218
250%
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 3