Commercial Metals Company

A truck driver was walking on top of a load of logs to remove tarps. He approached the edge to prepare for dismounting. He stepped on a sideboard that shifted, causing him to fall to the ground. He sustained a cut to the top of his head that required five stitches, fractures to his right forearm, and a dislocated right elbow.

An employee entered the baghouse to take dust samples from a compartment. When he entered the building there was baghouse dust approximately 12 inches deep on the floor. The employee walked through the dust about 5 feet when he noticed the layer of dust beneath the top was hot and felt his feet burning. Heated dust had entered the top of his boot and worked downward until resting underneath the arch of his right foot causing burns to the bottom of his foot.

An employee was using a crane to move a 6-by-60-foot bundle of rebar from a stock rack to production lines. The employee placed the crane remote on an adjacent bundle and was placing the wire sling under the suspended bundle when the remote control slid off the adjacent bundle and fell under the suspended bundle. The employee reached under the suspended bundle when the bundle tie wire suddenly broke. The bundle fell onto the employee's right hand, resulting in a crushed and fractured hand.

An employee was working between railcars on an active railroad track to connect the airbrake. Another employee moved the railcars, striking and running over the employee resulting in amputation of both legs.

On February 11, 2022, an employee was using an overhead crane to lift a hopper full of scraps to empty it in a dumpster that measured 40 feet long and 2 feet high. Since the dumpster was not completely full, the hopper did not dump forward, so the employee went inside the dumpster and attempted to rock the hopper. He exited the dumpster and used the overhead crane to turn the hopper to the rear of the dumpster. He then stood on the right side of the dumpster while holding onto the lifting yoke for the hopper with his right hand. While holding the yoke arm for balance, he attempted to tip the bucket by rocking it back and forth. As the bucket dumped scrap metal, his right ring finger got caught between the yoke arm and the yoke stop plate of the hopper, resulting in an amputation of the fingertip without bone loss.

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.

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.

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.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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.

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 loading a pallet. They stepped off the pallet and landed on shrink wrap, which caused them to fall to the concrete floor. The employee suffered a laceration on their head.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.