Cleveland - Cliffs Inc.

An employee was attaching rigging to a mandrel sleeve during routine mandrel sleeve replacement. The employee fell 15 feet from a work platform to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their eye socket, spine, and a rib.

A train operator was transporting carts of molten iron from the blast furnace to oxygen furnaces. He was working to couple four carts to two other carts while going around a slight curve on the track. A hard coupling event occurred causing molten iron to splash out of the carts and onto the employee. The employee sustained first-degree burns to the face and knees.

An employee and co-worker were participating in a hands-on alignment training of a device that consisted of an electric drive motor, a belt, pulleys, a chain, and sprockets. The employee finished checking the tension and alignment on the training aid and prepared to energize the device s motor to spin the chain and check their work. The device activated causing the injured employee s right ring finger to become caught between the chain and sprocket. The employee suffered a fingertip injury resulting in amputation down to the first joint.

An employee was carrying out a shrink-wrapping task. The employee's right little finger was pinched between a skid runner and a driven conveyor roll, causing an amputation to the finger.

Two operator technicians were processing side trim coils on a repair line when scrap on the north side became jammed in the scrap chute. The employee stopped the line and went to clear the scrap buildup as the other employee jogged the machine to realign the scrap for the other employee to remove. The injured employee's left hand was then caught on the scrap chopper and his left index, middle, and ring fingers were crushed.

An employee was pulling on a bale of corrugated cardboard boxes that were on a conveyor. The straps on the bale failed and the employee fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured femur and/or hip.

On December 27, 2023, an employee was delivering mail to an apartment complex when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a left tibia fracture.

An employee was walking to the inventory cage when her ankle gave out and she fell to the floor. The employee sustained a femur fracture and was hospitalized.

An employee was dislodging a pallet that was stuck when boxes of product fell onto them, causing them to fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured femur.

An employee was exiting an elevator when he lost balance and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee fell while entering the building. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

An employee was doing a cable change on top of an electric overhead traveling (EOT) crane. They were positioned between the cable drum and the drive shaft. While rotating the cable drum, the employee reached for the new cable that was to be installed. The grease fitting on the drive shaft caught their fall harness and pulled them underneath the drive shaft. The employee was pinned between the drive shaft and two pieces of angle steel, resulting in a fracture to their left hip.

An employee was working to close a furnace door. The hydraulic mechanism that opens and closes the furnace door was non-operational and had been disconnected to allow the furnace door to be opened manually. As the employee was releasing the pins that held the door open, the door and the hydraulic cylinder fell, pinching their left hand between the hydraulic cylinder's base plate and the furnace. The employee suffered amputation of the little fingertip.

A rolling mill was shut down due to a cobble between two mill stands. The injured employee was cleaning the cobble from the delivery side of stand A, while another employee went to the control panel to move stand B and stand A moved instead. The injured employee's right thumb got caught between the delivery guide of stand A and the looper trough. The tip of his thumb required surgical amputation to the bone to allow for stitches.

An employee was helping another employee load stock material onto a press brake when the stock slipped. The injured employee's right index finger was caught between the press brake die and the stock, resulting in amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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.