DALLAS, TEXAS·2020-10-01

Commercial Metals Company

Struck by dislodged flying object, particle · Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Commercial Metals Company, 1729 N. Westmoreland Road, DALLAS, TEXAS 75212 on 2020-10-01, Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury, affecting the eye(s).

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Final narrative

An employee had been installing new blades on a wire chopper granulator. A metal shard got in the employee's left eye and the employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Eye(s) Metal chips, particles

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