Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing
Industry Summary
As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 27,395 workers employed at 584 Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 79 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 47 workers. With OSHA reported accident rates of less than that of the the Plastics Pipe Pipe Fitting and Unlaminated Profile Shape Manufacturing Industry as a whole, things have been relatively safe over the past five years.
On Friday, December 21st 2018 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Yoakum, TX after learning of an incident at Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. which had occured on Thursday, December 20th 2018. A 53 year old man working as a Machinery maintenance occupation was killed on the job when the employee was struck by piece of machinery and was killed
OSHA ID112045.015
Accident Date2018-12-20
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 1:30 p.m. on December 20, 2018, an employee was installing a jack screw onto a Perforator machine when the machine fell on top of the employee, killing him.
OSHA investigators arrived in Springfield, OH on Tuesday, November 7th 2017 and began an accident investigation at United Fiberglass Of America, Inc.. A 35 year old man working as a Winding was injured on the job when the employee was pulled into pipe making mandrel and suffered mult
OSHA ID100543.015
Accident Date2017-11-04
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 10:15 a.m. on November 4, 2017, an employee was making a 2 inch fiberglass pipe on a pipe mold and was attaching strands of fiberglass to a mandrel attached to a winder. As the employee reached over to grab the tail from the fiberglass role, the employee's shirt underneath his right arm pit was caught by the pin that holds the mandrel in place. The employee's arm was pulled into the winder and flipped him over it several times before a coworker was able to hit the emergency stop button. The employee suffered two compound fractures to his right arm, a dislocated shoulder and contusions to his lower legs. The employee was hospitalized.
The accident investigation below was opened on Monday, October 30th 2017 by OSHA representitives in Mobile, AL which had occured previously at Rps Composites Alabama, Inc. . A 35 year old Winding had been injured when the employee's gloved hand was caught by spinning bolt and finger
OSHA ID100310.015
Accident Date2017-10-23
Accident DegreeNon Hospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 7:45 a.m. on October 23, 2017, an employee was applying resin to a composite pipe that was being manufactured. The employee's gloved right hand was caught by a spinning bolt and was pulled into the spinning pipe. The employee was flipped over the pipe twice before the machine was stopped and the employee's right pinky was twisted so badly that it had to be surgically amputated. No hospitalization was required.
OSHA Inspection Activity
Accident Rate
5 Year Average
16.99
Last 12 Months
0
Reporting Statistics
Inspection Records: 435
88.9%
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 41