Material Sciences Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Oct 14, 2009 (fatal): Employee is killed when steel coil falls

At approximately 4:19 p.m. on October 14, 2009, an employee was killed when an 1 8,730 lbs steel coil fell on him from an Exit Coil Cart. At the time of the acci dent, the employee current position was a janitor, but he has had various job ch anges through his 40 years employment with the company and he was not regularly assign to this task. A coworker was in the area that saw the employee preparing the steel coil to be wrapped with paper on the Exit Coil Cart. The coworker saw the employee, began to manually place paper on the steel coil and rotated the Co il Cart so that the paper would wrap around the steel coil. The coworker also no ted that the paper did not wrap around the coil correctly. The employee set the Exit Coil Cart in motion for paper wrapping. The coworker saw that the employee tore the wrapping paper off the coil and threw it away in the trash, and he bega n the wrapping process again. The coworker observed that the employee began to m anually place the paper again on the steel coil. At that moment the coworker tur ned away from the area to do his own job duties. The coworker heard the loud thu mp and ran over to the Re-Coiler Assembly Area where he saw the steel coil on to p of the employee. The coworker immediately called emergency services to have th em respond to the accident. The employee was killed.

Incident on Jul 7, 2009: Employee's fingers are amputated cleaning machine

On July 7, 2009, Employee #1 was cleaning the chrome hold down of a uncoiler mac hine. His hand was positioned on the uncoiler plate, when the hold down came dow n and pinched his fingers. He was hospitalized with amputated middle, ring and p inky fingers.