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OSHA Injury Report: Cooper Steel

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Cooper Steel in Shelbyville, TN 37160 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was machine Operator in buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing.

Establishment
Cooper Steel
Parent company
Cooper's Steel Fabricators, Inc.
Street
503 North Hillcrest Drive
City
Shelbyville
State
TN
ZIP
37160
On-site location
Shelbyville Fabrication - Cooper Steel Machining
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Dumping drop in scrap bin.

While getting rid of a drop piece of metal 2ft. metal tubing in the self dumping hopper. The employee turned and threw the piece. When the piece hit another smaller piece causing it pop up and strike the employee in the head.

Nature of Injury: Laceration Cut |Type: |Body Part: Head

Steel Beams Tubes

[REDACTED] was throwing a 2ft. tube in the self dumping hopper. It struck another piece of steel causing it to catapult and hit the [REDACTED] on top of the head.

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
332311 — Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
442
Total hours worked
681618
Establishment ID
82130
Employer case #
IE-2305-00
Date of incident
Shift started
17:30:00.000
Time of incident
19:30:00.000
Submitted
13FEB24:20:34:00

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.