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OSHA Injury Report: Worthington Steel Columbus

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Worthington Steel Columbus in Columbus, OH 43085 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was operator in rolled Steel Shape Manufacturing.

Establishment
Worthington Steel Columbus
Parent company
Worthington Industries, Inc.
Street
1127 Dearborn Dr
City
Columbus
State
OH
ZIP
43085
On-site location
Columbus Steel 48 Paxson Slitter
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Pushing ID Tail back into center of coil

When the 48 1 TUR was pushing a [REDACTED] coil onto the turnstile two ID bands broke and the ID tail pulled out. It was not out far enough to hyphen. When the team was working the tail back in the injured employee was using a no touch tool to hold the tail while the others were pushing it back in. The injured worker then used the no touch tool to push the tail and when it suddenly went in his hand was caught between the handle of the tool and the side of the coil causing a crush injury to the tip of the middle finger on the right hand.

Crushing cut laceration

no touch sheet steel grab tool

Crushing cut laceration to Right Fingers incl. Thumb caused by no touch sheet steel grab tool

Job description
Operator
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
331221 — Rolled Steel Shape Manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
172
Total hours worked
325998
EIN
311585233
Establishment ID
1211115
Employer case #
IN20230415
Date of incident
Shift started
6:30:00.000
Time of incident
8:45:00.000
Submitted
02MAR24:00:48:00

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.