TAMPA, FLORIDA—
Tampa Bay Steel Corporation
Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Tampa Bay Steel Corporation, 6901 E. 6th Ave., TAMPA, FLORIDA 33619 on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was banding a bundle of cut flat steel bars with an overhead crane when the bundle slipped out of the hoist chains and fell onto the employee's right middle finger, crushing and breaking it.
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At 12:30 p.m. on March 11, 2021, an employee fell off a burning table while removing scrap from it. He landed on his arm on the concrete floor, suffering a fracture to the elbow/arm that required hospitalization and surgery.
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