OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221397193

SUPREME CASTING INCORPORATED

STEVENSVILLE, MI· 2021-09-01T00:00:00

Event: Aluminum Processing, Back, Burn, Engineering Controls, Finger, Flying Object, Hand, High Temperature, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Leak, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Metal, Production Line, Sprayed, Struck By, Temperature, Thumb
NAICS: 331523
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345556153
Employer profile: SUPREME CASTING INCORPORATED
Summary number: 221397193
Report ID: 0552652

Event description

Employee burns back and thumb when sprayed by molten aluminu

Investigation abstract

At 11:30 p.m. on September 1, 2021, an employee working as a production helper for a foundry was changing the core on machine 11. Machine 12 spit hot aluminum onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized to treat burns to his lower back and right thumb.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 61 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
873

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