Worker suffers “life-altering” injury at Ohio plant
For the fifth time since 2013, federal investigators have been called to an Ohio aluminum foundry to investigate the serious injury of a worker.
In the latest incident, a mold-tilting machine used to produce aluminum parts crushed a 53-year-old worker's left hand between the center core and bottom plate at General Aluminum Mfg. Company's Conneaut facility. He now has limited use of the hand and has been unable to return to work since the March 23, 2016, injury. In 2013 and 2015, four workers suffered amputations, in separate incidents, as a result of machine safety violations at the company facilities in Wapokaneta, Ravenna and Conneaut.