Childersburg, AL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Cooper Steel South, LLC
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Cooper Steel South, LLC in 809 Coosa Industrial Park 1st Road, Childersburg, AL 35044 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was material Handler in fabricated structural metal manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Cooper Steel South, LLC
- Parent company
- Cooper Steel South, LLC
- Street
- 809 Coosa Industrial Park 1st Road
- City
- Childersburg
- State
- AL
- ZIP
- 35044
- On-site location
- CSS - Paint Department, Paintbay North
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 77
Before the incident
Unhooking rigging
What happened
On [REDACTED] around [REDACTED] a material handler had set the beam down on the paintbay conveyor. The material handler unhooked the chains and began hoisting up the chains with the overhead crane. He was holding chains away from the beam to help keep them from getting caught on the beam however the tip of the closed hook unknowingly caught on the conveyor 's frame. The material handler heard someone yelling in the weld department as he looked up the chain caught tension causing his middle finger to get caught between the chain and beam. Employee was taken to Coosa Valley Emergency where he was told he had an open fracture to his right middle finger. He will follow up with our workers comp doctor. Employees had all required PPE at the time of the incident.
Injury or illness
Nature of Injury: Fracture Broken Bone |Type: |Body Part: Hand(s) Wrist(s)
Object or substance involved
Crane
Summary line
Material handler got finger caught between chain and beam and broke middle finger
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Material Handler
- SOC code
- 53-7062: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- NAICS code
- 332312: Fabricated structural metal manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 101
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 207,644
- EIN
- 843208430
- Establishment ID
- 930880
- Employer case #
- IE-2501-0
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:30
- Time of incident
- 20:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-14
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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