VMC Specialty Alloys LLC

On July 29, 2025, an employee working near a metal furnace. Toward the end of his shift, he was charging a furnace and began to experienced heat exhaustion. He had also been in areas of elevated temperatures due to heat sources such as direct sunlight and a combustion engine. The employee was hospitalized with dehydration.

An employee was injured when two, 19-inch diameter, 16-foot-long aluminum billets weighing approximately 7,000 - 10,000 pounds each, rolled off the forks of a fork truck while he was stacking steel I-beams as spacers so that the aluminum billets could be placed in the homogenization oven. The fork truck lost hydraulic power to the forks which were holding the billets. This caused them to tilt forward (down) and strike the employee. The billets had an approximate average temperature of at least 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The employee suffered second degree burns to the left hand, a fractured and displaced left ankle, a left distal fibular fracture, multiple fractures on the left and right feet and toes, and third degree burns from the ankle to the waist of the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was working on a production line. The employee went to retrieve parts that came out of the parts holder, and their left hand became caught between a chain and a sprocket. Three fingers on the hand were amputated.

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

An employee was operating a pad printer. The employee's finger was caught in the printer and they suffered a fingertip amputation. The part of the printer that caught the employee's finger was unguarded at the time.

On July 29, 2025, an employee working near a metal furnace. Toward the end of his shift, he was charging a furnace and began to experienced heat exhaustion. He had also been in areas of elevated temperatures due to heat sources such as direct sunlight and a combustion engine. The employee was hospitalized with dehydration.

An employee was using a pry bar to remove a piece of aluminum cone from a mold on the cone line. The cone broke loose and the employee's left middle finger was caught between the pry bar and the cone line frame. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

On February 6, 2025, an employee was walking in the parking lot when they slipped and fell to the pavement, resulting in a concussion.

An employee was machining a trunnion using a grinding rig when their left hand was caught between the grinding stone and the trunnion, resulting in fractures to the middle, ring, and little fingers, as well as severe damage to the skin and amputations of the middle and ring fingers to the distal knuckle.

On August 7, 2024, a maintenance technician was descending a fixed cage ladder when the ladder broke and they fell approximately 12 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained head injuries and fractured ribs.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.