Shelbyville, TN ·
OSHA Injury Report: Cooper Steel
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Cooper Steel in 503 North Hillcrest Drive, Shelbyville, TN 37160 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was welder 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
- CSF - Fitting/Welding Department, Fabrication
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Rigging Material
What happened
While EE was rigging a beam they were unaware that one chain was around the beam and the other was around a plate on the beam. This caused the chains to not pick up at the same time. The chain around the plate caught first and flipped the beam toward the employee while still hooked up striking their left index finger causing a laceration.
Injury or illness
Nature of Injury: Laceration Cut |Type: |Body Part: Finger(s)
Object or substance involved
Crane
Summary line
Rigging a beam causing a laceration to finger.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Welder
- SOC code
- 51-4121: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- NAICS code
- 332311: Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 388
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 832,976
- Establishment ID
- 82130
- Employer case #
- IE-2406-00
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:30
- Time of incident
- 01:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-01-27
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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