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Crushing injuries

1 hospitalization · 2023043068 · 4/6/2023 · Ellwood Quality Steels Company

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Nonclassifiable
Nature of injury
Crushing injuries

Cause

Event
Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
Source
Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name
Ellwood Quality Steels Company
Location
700 Moravia Street, NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16101
NAICS
331110
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was preparing to pick up two steel, round bars to be loaded into a truck. In order to have space for the lifting tongs to grab the bars, the employee needed to move the wedges to space the round bars out. The tongs were resting on the round bars and as the employee reached between the tongs and the round bar to move the wedge, the tongs fell on the employee's hand, pinching it between the tongs and the round bar. The employee sustained crush injuries that required surgery.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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