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OSHA Injury Report: GKN Sinter Metals

Other illness · Other recordable case

On , an other illness at GKN Sinter Metals in Salem, IN 47167 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was operator in powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis.

Establishment
GKN Sinter Metals
Parent company
GKN Sinter Metals
Street
198 Imperial Dr. Salem, IN 47167
City
Salem
State
IN
ZIP
47167
On-site location
509-11 Sizing Press
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Other illness (code 6)

Setting up sizing press

Employee didn 't back off the upper ram and cycled the press through and the tooling broke.

Sliver of carbide hit his left arm and embedded just under the skin.

A sliver of carbide

Sliver of carbide in left arm

Job description
Operator
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
332117 — Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
297
Total hours worked
630695
Establishment ID
1093253
Employer case #
24-03
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00
Time of incident
14:22
Filing year
2024
Submitted
18FEB2025:13:27:00

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.