TimkenSteel Corporation

An employee was performing a pre-shift inspection of the straddle carrier truck (PIT). While climbing up the fixed ladder to the cab of the PIT, the employee fell approximately six to seven feet to the floor below. The employee sustained a fractured left heel and a possible compressed disc. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

On January 28, 2019, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the injured employee, a scrap operator and employee in training for locomotive operations, was performing scrap railcar spotting operations with a trainer at the half track at Timken Steel Corporation scrap yard. Both employees were riding the leading edge of the railcars proceeding in an easterly direction. The injured employee was riding on the north side of the railcar and the operator was on the south. As the railcar went around a slight bend in the tracks, the injured employee was struck in the lower left leg by a piece of scrap steel. The scrap steel was frozen into the ground and sticking up and was not clear of the railway. The injured employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula that required surgery to repair.

An employee was on a step ladder working on a shaft drive for a cooling bed when he missed a step while coming down, falling backward and hitting his head on equipment or the ground. The injury required stitches.

An employee was setting material in a cutoff saw. The clamp to hold the material in place closed, pinching the employee's left little finger against the material. His fingertip was amputated.

An employee was lowering a crane hook to attach a cable for a saw blade change when his left index finger was pinched between the cable and hook, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.

After completing a run with an oil distributor truck, an employee was working to return (suction) the hot oil to the tank of the truck. When the employee opened one of the valves, hot oil (approximately 385 degrees) sprayed their face, resulting in first-, second-, and third-degree burns.

An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a water hose to clean debris out of the outfeed of a log conditioning vat. Water began entering the vat from the adjoining vat through a void in the separation wall at the infeed of the vats. As the employee was exiting the vat he had been working in using the access opening at the outfeed, hot water exiting the access opening entered the top of his protective hip wader. It pooled at the bottom of the wader and burned his left foot and ankle.

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 working near molten metal and experienced heat illness symptoms including cramps. The employee was hospitalized.

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 working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.