Shelby, NC ·
OSHA Injury Report: IMC Metals
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at IMC Metals in 135 Boiler Spring Road, Shelby, NC 28152 resulted in days away from work. Employee was casting Operator in precious metals recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- IMC Metals
- Parent company
- IMC Metals LLC
- Street
- 135 Boiler Spring Road
- City
- Shelby
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28152
- On-site location
- CASTING LINE 7
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 63
Before the incident
PLACING COLLERBODY ON BRACKET
What happened
EE FAILED TO SECURE BOTTOM LATCH ON COOLERBODY BRACKET EE TURNED TO GET A START ROD AND COLLER BODY FELL INTO MOLTEN METAL. A REACTION OCCURRED CAUSING METAL SPLATTER AND EMPLOYEE HIT HIS HEAD WHILE RETREATING
Injury or illness
MILD CONCUSSION AND SLIGHT BURN TO HEAD
Object or substance involved
I BEAM LOCATED CLOSE TO CASTER
Summary line
HEAD INJURY
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Casting Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4072: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- NAICS code
- 331492: Precious metals recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 110
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 148,229
- EIN
- 270817038
- Establishment ID
- 1075949
- Employer case #
- 5
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 09:27
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-24
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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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