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OSHA Injury Report: Materion Newton Inc

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Materion Newton Inc in Newton, MA 02461 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was machinist in powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis.

Establishment
Materion Newton Inc
Parent company
Materion
Street
45 Industrial Pl
City
Newton
State
MA
ZIP
02461
On-site location
Plant 6 Equipment Accurshear
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
63

Operator was watching shear operator cut titanium plate

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

Nature of InjuryIllness Fracture crush or dislocation Body Parts FingersLeft

Titanium plate came down on operators left middle finger

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

Job description
Machinist
SOC code
51-4041 — Machinists
NAICS code
332117 — Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
168
Total hours worked
341744
Establishment ID
991679
Employer case #
US-EM - NE
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
8:00:00.000
Submitted
26FEB24:12:50:00

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.