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OSHA Injury Report: Nucor Cold Finish Nebraska

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Nucor Cold Finish Nebraska in Norfolk, NE 68701 resulted in days away from work. Employee was production operator Stress Relieve Furnace in cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel.

Establishment
Nucor Cold Finish Nebraska
Parent company
Nucor Cold Finish Nebraska
Street
2301 W. Omaha Ave.
City
Norfolk
State
NE
ZIP
68701
On-site location
Cold Finish NE - Stress relieve transfer table.
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
70

Moving bundles of steel bars.

Teammate was in the process of lining up a bundle on the transfer cart with another bundle. As he was lowering the crane to set the bundle down onto the cart he had his left hand resting on top of the bundle. When the bundle made contact with the cart the bars in the bundle shifted and the teammates middle finger on his left hand was pinched.

Fractured tip of middle finger.

pinched between two steel bars.

fractured fingertip caught in on or between an object

Job description
Production operator Stress Relieve Furnace
SOC code
51-4031 — Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
NAICS code
331221 — Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
112
Total hours worked
270789
EIN
324442186
Establishment ID
1066618
Employer case #
4
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
12:55:00.000
Submitted
18JAN24:12:14:00

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.