Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ArcelorMittal, LLC, 215 South Front Street, STEELTON, PENNSYLVANIA 17113
on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking from their car to the plant, slipped on the ice, and fell resulting in a broken knee cap.
An employee was raising a pendant crane when the hook became caught on a spacer block and knocked the other blocks over. The blocks rolled to the floor and onto the employee's feet, fracturing both.
On August 16, 2017, at 5:30 p.m., an employee was attempting to disconnect a crane magnet when an arc flash occurred. He was shocked, receiving a 4-inch burn on his right forearm, a burn in the middle of the right side of his back, and a burn on the top of his right foot. He was hospitalized.
An employee was using an overhead chain lift to lift a 29-foot-long flat bar weighing 2900 lbs. when the hook holding the chain bent, allowing the flat bar to slip and amputate the employee's left middle and ring fingertips.
On September 21, 2016, at approximately 7:30 a.m., an employee and two coworkers were conducting routine checks on the plating line when a piece of debris was noted riding on top of the running strip line/plating solution. The employee attempted to remove the debris from the running strip line with a 12-inch spud wrench when his right hand was pulled into the rotating plating rolls, amputating his index finger, breaking his ring finger, and causing an abrasion to his hand.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 331111)
An employee used a crane to set down a bar. The bar measured 9 inches by 16 feet. The strap got stuck under the bar, and the employee asked another employee to jog the roll. The bar rolled and pinched the injured employee's left hand, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee was loading a steel forming machine with steel to be processed. He went to move a cooling hose out of the way and his left thumb was crushed by the forming roller, resulting in injuries that required surgical amputation.
An employee was advancing a rail to line up for welding with a secondary rail on the weld line when his right middle and ring fingers were caught between the rails. The employee sustained an amputation to the top knuckle of the middle finger and a fracture to the ring finger. The machine was guarded at the time.
An employee was preparing bundles of 24-foot square metal tubing to be loaded onto a truck and cut the safety band for a bundle. While the employee was removing a piece of dunnage from a bundle, they bumped the bundle with their leg. The metal tubing then fell forward and struck the employee, causing a fractured left ankle.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.