OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221642580

FUSION BABBITTING COMPANY, INC.

MILWAUKEE, WI· 2024-02-21T00:00:00

Event: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Burn, Ear, Face, Flying Object, Fracture, Head, Heat, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Leg, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Metal, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Molten Metal, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Protective Clothing, Shear, Shoulder, Struck By, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 333613
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347293169
Employer profile: FUSION BABBITTING COMPANY, INC.
Summary number: 221642580
Report ID: 0523400

Event description

One employee dies, two are injured; plate flies from casting

Investigation abstract

At 7:45 a.m. on February 21, 2024, an Employee #1 who was working as a forging died from a head trauma. Employee #2 received 2nd degree burns on the back, shoulders, face, and inside ear and Employee #3 fractured his leg. Employee #2 and Employee #3 required medical treatment without hospitalization. machine operator for a bearing babbitting service was pouring molten tin into a horizontal casting machine while the horizontal casting machine was spinning. Employee #2 and Employee #3, both also forging machine operators, were standing behind Employee #1 prepping the ladles to be poured after Employee #1 finished with pouring. The front plate and metal mold disengaged from the horizontal casting machine. Molten metal was released from the mold and spilled throughout the babbitting room burning Employee #2. When the front plate went flying it struck Employee #1 in the head and struck Employee #3 in the leg. Employee #1

Victims (3)

#1 Fatality Age 51 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
453
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
779
#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
713

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