Ohio Gratings, Inc.

An employee was bending carbon steel nosing on a hydraulic press when their left hand got caught in the press. The employee suffered a broken left hand and was hospitalized.

An employee was moving a steel coil using an overhead crane and was setting it down when the coil struck other coils in a bin, causing those coils to shift. The employee was struck by the steel coils and sustained a fractured hand.

An employee was unloading 3' x 24' metal grating from a press machine and moving it to another location using an overhead gantry crane. The material shifted during the move and struck the employee's lower left leg resulting in a laceration to the calf and a broken lower leg bone.

An employee was clearing a jam in a press welding machine. The machine activated and the guard came down onto their arm and hand, resulting in fractures.

An employee was using a circular saw to cut aluminum grating. The saw caught and injured his left forearm. The arm was medically amputated.

After repairing a piece of industrial equipment, an employee had brake-cleaning liquid on his gloves. A lighter ignited the liquid, and the employee's hands were severely burned.

An employee was welding lift arms when their shirt caught fire due to welding sparks or heat, resulting in thermal burns to their upper chest.

An employee was cleaning a seam with weather membrane cleaner. The cleaner soaked into the employee's gloves, and they caught fire when a cigarette was lit. The employee suffered first- and second-degree burns to both hands and was hospitalized.

The injured employee had been working with xylene in a paint booth and exited the paint booth for a smoke break. The employee dropped his lighter, causing his clothing to catch fire, possibly from xylene vapors. The employee sustained burns from their chest down to their thighs and was hospitalized.

An employee was charging the furnace when a spark from the furnace ignited and struck the employee's undershirt. The employee sustained burns to their lower back, hands, and front abdomen.

A temporary employee was performing a two-person projection welding task to add a hinge reinforcement to a hollow steel door. He was positioning the hinge reinforcement while his supervisor held the door to maintain alignment. When the foot pedal was actuated, the electrode partially amputated the employee's left ring finger.

An employee was stacking bundles (12 feet long, 21 inches high) of aluminum extrusions (weighing 28 pounds each). After three bundles had been successfully stacked, the fourth tipped over when it was partially complete. It landed on the employee's right ankle/leg and broke the tibia. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was adjusting the rollers on the mill feeder when their right thumb was crushed between two rollers, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

An employee was operating a core drill to bore through concrete at an active construction site. The equipment struck embedded rebar in the concrete, causing the handle to kick back and strike the employee's ribs. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured rib and a punctured lung.

An employee was loading pallets onto a truck and climbed down off a pallet after loosening straps to release the crane. The employee slipped off the flatbed truck and fell 4 feet to the dock plate/ground. The employee was hospitalized with a brain bleed and fractures to their T4, T5, and T6 vertebrae.

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.