Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing

Industry Summary

As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 167,791 workers employed at 6,053 Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 782 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 28 workers. On average over the last five years, the Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing industry has a slightly higher OSHA reported accident rate (27% more) than the broader Architectural and Structural Metals Manufacturing Industry

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The accident investigation below was opened on Friday, April 19th 2019 by OSHA representitives in Pell City, AL which had occured previously at Garrison Industrial Steel, Llc. A 39 year old Welder had been killed when the

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OSHA ID115594.015

Accident Date2019-04-19

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeAt 2:00 p.m. on April 19, 2019, an employee was loading steel beams onto a flatbed trailer and was struck by a beam that rolled off of the truck, killing him.

On Tuesday, December 18th 2018 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Mobile, AL after learning of an incident at Metals Usa Plates And Shapes Southeast, Inc. which had occured on the same day. A 49 year old Crane Operator had been killed when the employee struck storage rack while falling from ladder and

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OSHA ID111962.015

Accident Date2018-12-18

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeAt 12:30 a.m. on December 18, 2018, an employee and coworker were loading metal products onto a flatbed trailer. The employee was working from the trailer bed while his coworker was on the ground and he went to leave the trailer by climbing down the portable metal ladder attached to the rub rail. The employee had climbed down 2 or 3 steps and fell from the ladder, striking the metal storage rack alongside the trailer. The employee was transported to the local hospital, where he later died from blunt force trauma to his head.

OSHA investigators arrived in Montgomery City, MO on Wednesday, November 14th 2018 and began an accident investigation at Jay Henges Enterprises, Inc.. A 23 year old Machine operator had been injured when the

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OSHA ID110965.015

Accident Date2018-11-12

Accident DegreeNon Hospitalized injury

NarrativeAt 10:00 p.m. on November 12, 2018, an employee was using a rag to clean a roll-coater machine. During cleaning, the rag became caught in the machine's rollers. The employee's right hand was pulled in the rollers, resulting in the amputation of her index finger.