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OSHA Injury Report: Cooper Steel

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Cooper Steel in Shelbyville, TN 37160 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was fitter in buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing.

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
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Grinding Material

IE was grinding holes on a steel beam at workstation #2. IE was wearing safety glasses face shield and gloves at time of injury. IE reported he actually saw a small piece of steel come under his face shield and felt it hit his eye. Tried flushing eye at eyewash station with no relief. Sr. Site Manager attempted to located foreign body in eye with no success. IE was taken to Eye Dr. by the Safety Manager. A small piece of steel that was embedded in the left eye was removed by the Dr.

Nature of Injury: Foreign Object |Type: |Body Part: Eye(s)

Hand Tools

IE was grinding holes on a steel beam. Small piece of steel went into left eye.

Job description
Fitter
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
332311 — Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
388
Total hours worked
832976
Establishment ID
82130
Employer case #
IE-2404-00
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
10:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
27JAN2025:16:25:00

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.