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OSHA Injury Report: Elmet

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Elmet in Lewiston, ME 04240 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was grinding Operator 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.

Establishment
Elmet
Parent company
Elmet Technologies LLC
Street
1560 Lisbon St
City
Lewiston
State
ME
ZIP
04240
On-site location
Centerless Grinding
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Operator was grabbing a rod from the output side of the grinder and the hot rod burned his hand

Employee didn 't turn on coolant and rod was hot when he picked it up.

Burn to left hand

Hot tungsten rod

Burn to left hand

Job description
Grinding Operator
SOC code
51-4033 — Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool 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
Avg employees
161
Total hours worked
304830
EIN
472668452
Establishment ID
1087469
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
7:30:00.000
Submitted
12FEB24:12:12:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.