Bar Processing Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Aug 30, 2019: Employee is impaled by steel bar

At 9:45 a.m. on August 30, 2019, an employee was crossing between a steel rod polisher exit and the exit channel when an 18-foot long by one inch thick steel bar exited the polisher and struck him in the upper right thigh. The employee was hospitalized to treat a steel bar impaled in his right thigh.

Incident on Mar 5, 2019: Employee's toes are crushed by falling steel bars and are la

At 7:30 p.m. on March 5, 2019, an employee was moving and weighing bundles of steel bars. The lifting sling was not hooked completely on the crane hook and when the employee picked up two bundles of steel, the sling came off the hook. One bundle of steel bars lunged towards the employee and fell on his foot, crushing his right big, second, and third toes. He was hospitalized. Two weeks after the accident, the employee's second and third toe were removed. removed.

Incident on Mar 20, 2015 (fatal): Employee struck in head and killed by bundle of steel

At 10:00 p.m. on March 20, 2015, an employee was moving bundles of steel round stock. The employee was injured after being struck in the head by a 9,400 pound bundle of steel round stock that he was moving with an overhead 20 Ton Shaw-Box Crane #806 crane.