Bethel, CT ·
OSHA Injury Report: Kanthal Corporation
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Kanthal Corporation in 119 Wooster Street, Bethel, CT 06801 resulted in days away from work. Employee was heavy Wire Drawer in bar, nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper), made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Kanthal Corporation
- Parent company
- Kanthal Corp.
- Street
- 119 Wooster Street
- City
- Bethel
- State
- CT
- ZIP
- 06801
- On-site location
- Heavy Wire Drawing machine
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 31
Before the incident
Employee was drawing wire on the wire drawing machine.
What happened
employee used wrong size diameter die which caused the wire to splinter. Employee then grabbed the splintered wire to clean out the debris which caused a laceration to his right index finger.
Injury or illness
Laceration on right index finger
Object or substance involved
The splintered wire
Summary line
Laceration on right index finger from metal wire splintering
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Heavy Wire Drawer
- SOC code
- 51-4021: Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- NAICS code
- 331491: Bar, nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper), made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 84
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 158,329
- EIN
- 61057960
- Establishment ID
- 961766
- Employer case #
- 3
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 23:00
- Time of incident
- 04:15
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-02
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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