Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221428345

STEWARD STEEL INC

Event
Amputated, Beam, Clamp, Dropped, Falling Object, Foot, Toe, Transportation
NAICS
238120
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345729180
Employer profile
STEWARD STEEL INC
Summary number
221428345
Report ID
0729300

Event description

Employee receives amputation to three toes when beam falls o

Investigation abstract

At 4:30 a.m. on January 10, 2022, an employee moved a fabricated beam (weighing approximately twenty-eight hundred pounds) to prepare it for transport. As the employee began to set the beam into position, the clamp (rated for three thousand pounds) released, and the beam fell onto the employee's right foot. The employee was taken to the hospital to treat amputation injuries to three of the employee's toes. The employee was not hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 19 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    783

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