Salem, IN —
OSHA Injury Report: GKN Sinter Metals
Other illness · Other recordable case
At a glance
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.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Other illness (code 6)
Before the incident
Setting up sizing press
What happened
Employee didn 't back off the upper ram and cycled the press through and the tooling broke.
Injury or illness
Sliver of carbide hit his left arm and embedded just under the skin.
Object or substance involved
A sliver of carbide
Summary line
Sliver of carbide in left arm
Employee and industry
- 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
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 14:22
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 18FEB2025:13:27:00
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.