Fort Wayne, IN ·
OSHA Injury Report: OmniSource, LLC. - Media
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at OmniSource, LLC. - Media in 2001 Eat Pontiac St. Building 8, Fort Wayne, IN 46803 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was laborer in metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- OmniSource, LLC. - Media
- Parent company
- OmniSource, LLC.
- Street
- 2001 Eat Pontiac St. Building 8
- City
- Fort Wayne
- State
- IN
- ZIP
- 46803
- On-site location
- Near Pre-wash tank and HMS Roto-Seize area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 55
Before the incident
Moving steel drain cover plate back into place.
What happened
Employee was cleaning up spilled media and water from a broken pipe. As part of the cleanup he moved the steel cover plate off the floor drain so he could shovel all the spilled media and water into the drain. When the cleanup was finished he lifted the cover plate to slide it back into place but somehow he lost his grip and the steel plate fell onto his finger. This caused the plate to cut off the tip of his right ring finger.
Injury or illness
Right ring finger tip amputation.
Object or substance involved
Steel metal plate.
Summary line
Finger tip amputation; Steel plate
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Laborer
- SOC code
- 53-7062: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- NAICS code
- 423930: Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 23
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 42,555
- Establishment ID
- 967660
- Employer case #
- 23_858
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 00:00
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-16
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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