Washington, PA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Washington Operations
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Washington Operations in 500 Green Street, Washington, PA 15301 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was utility Person in cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Washington Operations
- Parent company
- Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI)
- Street
- 500 Green Street
- City
- Washington
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 15301
- On-site location
- Shipping
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 17
Before the incident
The crew had just finished a break and was using a 20-ton spreader bar with (4) 1.5” x 1.5” rectangular stirrup hooks attached. The crew was in the process of loading a pile of scrap plates onto a truck. This pile of scrap was in location 35 of shipping. The scrap pile was the 3rd lift down. The crew was placing 1.5” x 1.5” rectangular hooks with 12” toes under the 2nd stack down. The hooks are on a spreader bar. The crane man had lowered the spreader bar and hooks down to a position that allowed plenty of slack to safely handle the hooks. The crew was trying to pick up 2 piles but the piles where not stacked even so the crew had to bring the hooks up to another opening. The injured employee stated he had to squat and bend over to place hook in proper opening. All crew members placed their hooks under the stack where 3” x 3” x 36” wood spacers were present creating a safe opening for the hooks. The injured employee placed the left toe of his hook under the stack where 3
What happened
Hand (right ring fingertip) pinched between large stirrup hook and plate.
Injury or illness
Broken tip (i.e. 3 places) of right ring finger
Object or substance involved
Rectangular hook (64 lbs.) and scrap plates
Summary line
Open distal tuft fracture right 4th finger tip pinched between hook and plate.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Utility Person
- SOC code
- 53-7199: Material Moving Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 331221: Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 226
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 499,842
- EIN
- 814499222
- Establishment ID
- 209509
- Employer case #
- 62793
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 11:50
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-22
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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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