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OSHA Injury Report: Wastequip Mt Sterling

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Wastequip Mt Sterling in 200 Oak Grove Dr. Suite 1, Mt. Sterling, KY 40353 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machine Operator in garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing.

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Parent company
Wastequip Manufacturing Company, LLC
Street
200 Oak Grove Dr. Suite 1
City
Mt. Sterling
State
KY
ZIP
40353
On-site location
Workstation
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
31

pulling material for a job on the lathe. The material was staged on a cantilever rack with smaller diameter bar stock above the bar stock he was going for. At the point of pulling the material the smaller bar stock shifted and came down on his finger.

Sharp material fell from rack cutting through the gloves and causing laceration

Laceration

Sharp material

Deep laceration across right middle finger

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-9199: Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
332439: Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
58
Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
115,244
EIN
223191624
Establishment ID
804976
Employer case #
FY23-123
Date of incident
Shift started
07:00
Time of incident
13:30
Filing year
2023
Submitted to OSHA
2024-02-20

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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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