Portland, OR —
OSHA Injury Report: Earle M Jorgensen Portland
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Earle M Jorgensen Portland in Portland, OR 98607 resulted in days away from work. Employee was warehouse Operator in metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Earle M Jorgensen Portland
- Parent company
- Earle M Jorgensen Company
- Street
- 16440 NE Mason ST
- City
- Portland
- State
- OR
- ZIP
- 98607
- On-site location
- Back Yard, Near Bay 4
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 3
Before the incident
Moving company tractors to backyard of facility
What happened
Employee parked a company tractor and began walking to go back inside of the facility near [REDACTED] by the used garnet. As he was walking he made contact with a piece of scrap metal (stainless skeleton plate) protruding on top of cardboard recycle bin. Initial contact was to the employee 's safety glasses which then deflected upwards and made contact with his forehead. This knocked his hard hat off and employee ended up on the ground. Cut Laceration to forehead resulted in 8 sutures and a tetanus (Tdap) shot.
Injury or illness
Facial Laceration walked into stainless plate skeleton
Object or substance involved
A scrap skeleton of stainless plate
Summary line
Facial Laceration
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Warehouse Operator
- SOC code
- 9999 — Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 423510 — Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 24
- Total hours worked
- 51303
- EIN
- 651269024
- Establishment ID
- 1304942
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:24
- Time of incident
- 22:25
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 12FEB2025:18:11:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.