HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Name: HANDLING OF MATERIALS at Hibbing Taconite Company
Start: 02/20/2020

220200550018 · 02/20/2020 · Hibbing Taconite Company

Details

Degree of injury: NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification: HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type: Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation: Forklift operator
Activity: Handling supplies or material
Injury source: STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
Nature of injury: CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part: FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost: 0
Mine experience: 30.92 years

Operator

Controller (parent): Mittal-US Steel Canada-Cliffs Natural Resources
Operator: Hibbing Taconite Company
Mine: 2101600

Narrative

EE was moving furnace pallet car rail on the forks of the forklift, attempted to manually rotate it while on the forks. The rail slipped pinching the left index finger between the rail & forklift fork a laceration resulting in stitches.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown