Setup Paperboard Box Manufacturing
Industry Summary
Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (-100% more) the average for the Paperboard Container Manufacturing Industry.
OSHA investigators arrived in Parlier, CA on Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at W & T Plemons. A Assembler had been injured when the employee was struck in face when pliered slip from zip tie
OSHA ID201496536
Accident Date2012-04-25
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt approximately 9:30 a.m. on April 25, 2012, an employee was working as an assembler at the W & T Plemons paperboard box assembly plant in Parlier, CA. He was using a pair of pliers to tighten a zip tie. The pliers slipped off the zip tie, and the employee struck himself in his face with the pliers and his hand. He sustained an undisplaced fracture in the nasal bone on the left side of the midline. He was hospitalized.
OSHA Inspection Activity
Accident Rate
5 Year Average
0
Last 12 Months
0
Reporting Statistics
Inspection Records: 48
-100%
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 1