OSHA Injury Report: Materion Inc

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Operator was watching shear operator cut titanium plate

What happened

Equipment AccurshearSubstances Involved Titanium plate Operator [REDACTED] was fabricating a safety device for the Intermediate Mill Material involved was titanium [REDACTED] needed to cut the titanium plate and asked coworker [REDACTED] if he was familiar with Accurshear and if he had used in the past [REDACTED] replied to [REDACTED] with yes I have used that shear before to cut up scrap [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] proceeded to place the titanium plate on the bed of the shear [REDACTED] stood back while [REDACTED] used the two hand controls to shear the titanium plate The titanium plate was sheared and [REDACTED] walked toward the bed of the shear to pick up the plate [REDACTED] placed his left hand under the left side of the titanium plate to pick it up not knowing that the end of the plate in the shear was stuck between the blade and the bed of the shear As the blade was coming up and with [REDACTED] left middle finger under the titanium plate to pick it up and move it to a cart it is

Injury or illness

Nature of InjuryIllness Fracture crush or dislocation Body Parts FingersLeft

Object or substance involved

Titanium plate came down on operators left middle finger

Summary line

Nature of InjuryIllness Fracture crush or dislocation Cause of InjuryIllnessContacted by Body Parts FingersLeft Object Substance Titanium plate came down on operators left middle finger

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

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.