Posted: August 07, 2015
READING, Pa. -
A man was seriously injured on the job in Reading on Friday.
A Carpenter Technology maintenance employee was working on a piece of machinery outside one of the company's production buildings in Reading around 11:20 a.m. when he suffered a serious injury to one of his legs, according to a Carpenter spokesman.
First responders from both Reading and neighboring Muhlenberg Township were dispatched to respond to the plant's gate at North Front and Cathedral streets, adjacent to FirstEnergy Stadium.
The injured employee, whose name has not been released, was reported to be conscious when emergency crews arrived on the scene.
He was rushed to Reading Hospital.
A spokesman for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) told 69 News that the agency is investigating the incident, but he had no information to release.
Carpenter Technology started off in 1889 as a small tool steel company in Reading, Pennsylvania with only 35 employees. Today, Carpenter employs nearly 5,000 people in 40 locations worldwide. As a global leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of cast/wrought and powder metal stainless steels and specialty alloys, Carpenter continues to accommodate the ever-changing needs of the Automotive, Aerospace, Energy, Industrial, Medical, and Consumer Products industries that fuel our everyday lives.
Carpenter's broad product portfolio includes high temperature (iron-nickel-cobalt base), stainless, superior corrosion resistant, controlled expansion alloys, ultra high-strength and implantable alloys, tool and die steels, and other specialty metals as well as titanium alloys.
Product forms include loose gas atomized metal powders, billet, hollow and multi-dimensional forged bar, cold finished bar, strip and plate, and wire and rod.