Norfolk, VA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Metro Machine Corp-NASSCO Norfolk
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Metro Machine Corp-NASSCO Norfolk in 200 Ligon Street, Norfolk, VA 23523 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was driver in ship repair done in a shipyard.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Metro Machine Corp-NASSCO Norfolk
- Parent company
- General Dynamics
- Street
- 200 Ligon Street
- City
- Norfolk
- State
- VA
- ZIP
- 23523
- On-site location
- Ligon Site Recieveng Area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 51
Before the incident
Employee was dropping off GFM material to be used by a subcontractor to be installed on the ship. SKTR did not bring forklift to the front gate for off flatbed side pickup & did not respond to phone call. Alternative method of delivery used. Employee backed the flatbed to the receiving area and needed to rotate the pallets of the material 90 Deg so it could be offloaded from the truck via forklift on the back of the flatbed.
What happened
Employee was using a material handling hook and pulling the right corner towards themself as they were standing on the left edge of the wet (Rainwater) flatbed. Employee 's hook slipped off the material causing a loss of balance and backwards momentum leading to the employee falling backwards off the flat bed falling roughly feet to the asphalt landing on their buttocks then rolling and slaming their hardhat (Which was on their head) onto the ground.
Injury or illness
head Injury closed Cervical Strain Lumbar Strain
Object or substance involved
Force of bodyweight accelerated by Gravity after a roughly 4ft fall + asphalt cement ground
Summary line
Employee was realigning material on the back of his flatbed when the hook slipped off the material and employee lost their balance and fell backwards off the side of the truck (hard hat was in use).
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Driver
- SOC code
- 53-3032: Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
- NAICS code
- 336611: Ship repair done in a shipyard
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 794
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,645,745
- EIN
- 541147000
- Establishment ID
- 568547
- Employer case #
- 51
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 07:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-03
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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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