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OSHA Injury Report: Nucor Steel Gallatin

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Nucor Steel Gallatin in Ghent, KY 41045 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was mechanical Maintenance Rolling Mill in mini-mills, steel.

Establishment
Nucor Steel Gallatin
Parent company
Nucor
Street
4831 US Hwy 42 W
City
Ghent
State
KY
ZIP
41045
On-site location
Under tunnel furnace in Rolling Mill
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Teammate was using a 20 ' pole to clean out a blocked scale door on zone 6 of the tunnel furnace.

As teammate was using the pole to clean out the door area a large piece of refractory fell out of the tunnel furnace scale door and deflected towards the teammate. As the teammate 's hand was still gripping the pipe his right middle finger was struck by the piece of refractory that fell.

laceration to right middle finger

A piece of refractory from the tunnel furnace

Piece of refractory struck teammate 's middle finger on his right hand

Job description
Mechanical Maintenance Rolling Mill
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
331110 — Mini-mills, steel
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
750
Total hours worked
1594457
EIN
611245380
Establishment ID
1181622
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:13:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:21:23:00

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.