Exposure to harmful substances or environments, unspecified · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Libertas Copper, LLC, 100 Washington Street, LEETSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA 15056
on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
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Final narrative
An employee was removing a terminal strip on a motor control center and was injured by an electrical flash. The employee suffered burns to the face, ears and hands.
An employee was loading a copper sample into the pneumatic grips of the lab equipment when his right thumb was caught in the upper grip, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was attaching a C-hook to a smaller scale hook attached to an overhead crane. The C-hook was resting on top of a coil. The smaller scale hook was not fitting into the C-hook and the C-hook slid off of the coil, striking the employee's left shin and causing a laceration.
An employee was working as a casting assistant in a casting area when he began sweating profusely and feeling ill. He was hospitalized, suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion.
An employee suffered a reaction to an unknown object or substance, resulting in a body rash, swelling of the throat, and vomiting that required hospitalization.
An employee was trying to identify the location of a blockage in a pneumatic line. Two pipes in the line came apart, expelling batch mix onto the employee. The employee suffered abrasions and burns to the head, neck, and back.
An employee was polishing a bar on the lathe with sandpaper when the bar wrapped around the employee's glove and pulled it off. The employee sustained fractures to their index finger, wrist, and a knuckle.
An employee was using an electrical meter to troubleshoot an electrical drive system. While removing the probe, the employee made contact with the bus and was shocked. The employee sustained burns to their fingers and a dislocated shoulder.
An employee was setting up a furnace and lighting the torch on the furnace when they sustained burns from a flashback flame. The employee was hospitalized with burns to their head, face, chest, arms, and armpit area.
An employee was using a metal bar tied to a nylon strap attached to a jib crane to tighten a metal ring on a heated extrusion press. The metal bar flew off and struck the employee in the left forearm, fracturing it.
An employee was troubleshooting the lift table of the automated take-up mechanism on the jacket extrusion line. He was able to get the table to raise up, at which point it engaged and lowered. The employee's leg was pinned between the lift table and the concrete floor. His ankle was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
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.