Ghent, KY —
OSHA Injury Report: Nucor Steel Gallatin
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
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.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Teammate was using a 20 ' pole to clean out a blocked scale door on zone 6 of the tunnel furnace.
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
laceration to right middle finger
Object or substance involved
A piece of refractory from the tunnel furnace
Summary line
Piece of refractory struck teammate 's middle finger on his right hand
Employee and industry
- 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
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 11:13:00.000
- Submitted
- 28FEB24:21:23:00
Source
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.