Buckhannon, WV ·
OSHA Injury Report: Corhart Refractories
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Corhart Refractories in 87 Cohart Road, Buckhannon, WV 26201 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was finisher in ceramic fiber manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Corhart Refractories
- Parent company
- Saint-Gobain
- Street
- 87 Cohart Road
- City
- Buckhannon
- State
- WV
- ZIP
- 26201
- On-site location
- Blanchard 6
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 17
Before the incident
Flipping a block over on table with tongs attached to jib crane
What happened
Operator was flipping a block (weight - 285 lbs) from end to end (block size 4x18x25). The operator stated that he brought the block out of the machine and set it down on the skid he repositioned his tongs to be able to flip the block to the other end he had his hand around the block just to guide it and for some reason the jib crane swung around and the trolly traveled back toward the pole and during this process the block slipped out of the tongs. He was pulling his hand out of the way of the block but it fell onto the tips of his middle and ring fingers on his left hand.
Injury or illness
Fracture Left middle finger
Object or substance involved
285 lb block
Summary line
Left Middle finger fracture from blocking falling
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Finisher
- SOC code
- 51-9199: Production Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 327999: Ceramic fiber manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 148
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 258,393
- Establishment ID
- 143920
- Employer case #
- 46047
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 15:00
- Time of incident
- 16:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-06
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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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