Shelbyville, TN —
OSHA Injury Report: Cooper Steel
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Cooper Steel in Shelbyville, TN 37160 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was iron Worker in buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Cooper Steel
- Parent company
- Cooper's Steel Fabricators, Inc.
- Street
- 503 North Hillcrest Drive
- City
- Shelbyville
- State
- TN
- ZIP
- 37160
- On-site location
- Field Operations - Cooper Steel, Job/Construction Site
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Lifting Material
What happened
IE was fire watching at ground level while another employee was torch cutting crane beam stops off structure above. At [REDACTED] the GF shut down hot work for the night and the crew began breaking torch bottles down. While attempting to lift the oxygen bottle IE says they felt a sharp pain in left bicep and heard a tearing noise. They immediately notified the GF and I contacted Safety and General Superintendent. We left project and took IE to ER.
Injury or illness
Nature of Injury: Strain |Type: |Body Part: Arm(s)
Object or substance involved
Other
Summary line
IE heard and felt bicep tear.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Iron Worker
- SOC code
- 47-2221 — Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- NAICS code
- 332311 — Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 388
- Total hours worked
- 832976
- Establishment ID
- 82130
- Employer case #
- IE-2412-00
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 10:00
- Time of incident
- 16:40
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 27JAN2025:16:25:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.