OSHA Injury Report: Worthington Steel Columbus

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Arbor Breakdown

What happened

EE was taking apart a used arbor to build a new one. While sliding spacers off he felt a pull pop in the middle of his left hand. EE tried to give it a little bit of time to see if the pain would go away. When it did not EE went to the supervisor and informed them of what had happened. EE did not want to go home or to the hospital. He wanted to keep working. Supervisor allowed him to remain working but made him do a different task for the rest of the night as to not cause more pain or strain on his hand. Supervisor gave him a bag of ice told him to rest it and ice it while EE was here and kept checking in on him throughout the shift.

Injury or illness

Sprain

Object or substance involved

Arbor tooling

Summary line

Sprain to Left Fingers incl. Thumb caused by Arbor tooling

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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.