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Worker's leg crushed at Amsted Rail's Groveport, OH plant; $610K OSHA fine

S4 · 01/2017 · Amsted Rail · Groveport, OH, USA

Record

CompanyAmsted Rail
Categoryrail supplier
Typeinjury
Date01/2017
Time of daynot documented
LocationGroveport, OH, USA · Amsted Rail foundry
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale1 injury, 1 facility
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceMurray & Murray (citing OSHA)

What happened

A 60-year-old maintenance worker's leg was crushed in January 2017 when he was caught in a machine while conducting maintenance at Amsted Rail's Groveport, Ohio foundry; OSHA also found silica overexposure and lockout/guarding failures, proposed $610,034 in penalties, and placed Amsted Rail in its Severe Violator Enforcement Program.

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