Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 135097.015 - Employee sustains multiple trauma from fall into furnace pit

Accident Summary Nr: 135097.015 -- Report ID: 0316700 -- Event Date: 04/26/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1527230.015	04/26/2021		331110	Carpenter Technology Corporation

Abstract: At 3:35 p.m. on April 26, 2021, an employee working as a furnace operator for an iron and steel mill was standing at the edge of a C Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) Furnace pit. The employee fell nearly 19 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized to treat two broken ribs, two brain bleeds and a broken vertebra.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Broken Bone, Chest, Engineering Controls, Equipment Operator, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Furnace, Guardrail, Head, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine operator, Melting Furnace, Mill--Plant, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Pit, Rib, Sprain, Traumatic Brain Injury, Vertebra

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1527230.015	37	M	Hospitalized injury		Furnace, kiln and oven operators

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