2,042,423Injury reports 130,778Establishments Most recent incident 2025-12-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Injury Report: Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage in Westport, MA 02790 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was torch Cutter in bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage
Parent company
Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage
Street
548 State Road
City
Westport
State
MA
ZIP
02790
On-site location
Metal Room Aluminum side
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
5

The employee was testing transformers with a grinder.

When the employee transferred the grinder from his left hand to his right while on he torched the blade with his finger and it cut it.

laceration of right index finger

grinder

laceration to right pointer finger - knuckle area

Job description
Torch Cutter
SOC code
51-9032 — Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
NAICS code
423930 — Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
58
Total hours worked
115505
EIN
42134265
Establishment ID
1177617
Employer case #
5
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:15:00.000
Submitted
27FEB24:18:49:00

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.