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OSHA Injury Report: Ryerson - Lancaster

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Ryerson - Lancaster in Lancaster, NY 14806 resulted in days away from work. Employee was cTL Operator in metal Service Center.

Establishment
Ryerson - Lancaster
Parent company
Joseph T Ryerson & Son, Inc
Street
3915 Walden Ave
City
Lancaster
State
NY
ZIP
14806
On-site location
Coil Processing Department
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1

Employee was reaching to remove the top pallet off a stacked column of pallets.

A stack of empty used skids were alternated with every other skid being upside down in the stack. Employee attempted to flip the upside down skid onto the floor to be picked up with a sheet lifter and placed into the CTL stacker. Employee felt a pain in his lower left back region and stopped working.

Nature of Injury Illness:: Sprain Strain; Body Part(s):: Trunk - Back - Lower

Pallet weighing in excess of 75 lbs.

Nature of Injury Illness:: Sprain Strain; Cause of Injury Illness::Reaching; Body Part (s):: Trunk - Back - Lower; Object Substance:: Pallet weighing in excess of 75 lbs..

Job description
CTL Operator
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
423510 — Metal Service Center
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
48
Total hours worked
92778
EIN
361717960
Establishment ID
803120
Employer case #
US1056LANC
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
6:45:00.000
Submitted
29JAN24:21:40:00

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.