Houston, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Ameriforge-IR
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Ameriforge-IR in 13770 Industrial Road, Houston, TX 77015 resulted in days away from work. Employee was maintence in hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Ameriforge-IR
- Parent company
- Ameriforge-IR
- Street
- 13770 Industrial Road
- City
- Houston
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 77015
- On-site location
- FORGE SHOP
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 180
Before the incident
THE EMPLOYEE WAS ASSEMBLING THE LEFT COUNTERBALANCE ON AN ERFURT TRIM PRESS.
What happened
The employee and an overhead crane operator were working on assembling the counterbalance on the trim press. The cylinder was being lifted with a web strap and overhead crane the web strap was feed through an opening in the press and was pulling up the cylinder through the cavity. The injured employee was using a crowbar to align the cylinder with the pinhole on the press. He had placed the crowbar inside the pinhole on the cylinder and was pushing left and right to make the alignment. The web strap caught itself on an angle iron insidethe crane operator was unable to see this and continued lifting on the strap the strap broke causing the 100lb cylinder to fall back down swinging the crowbar forward. This caused the employee to hit his left on against electrical conduit box and the crowbar.
Injury or illness
Left hand Index finger fractured laceration to left pinky
Object or substance involved
Crowbar and electrical conduit box
Summary line
FRACTURE LEFT HAND
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Maintence
- SOC code
- 49-9041: Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- NAICS code
- 332111: Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 297
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 892,502
- Establishment ID
- 1049245
- Employer case #
- 4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 18:00
- Time of incident
- 18:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-29
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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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