OSHA report says Hubbard castings company could have prevented fatal molten metal leak

HUBBARD, Ohio (WKBN) — A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that a Hubbard castings company could have prevented a molten metal leak that fatally burned an employee. Thirty-year-old Jawaylan Patterson, an ELLWOOD Engineered Castings employee, died in January after molten steel was poured on him at the Masury Road plant. Investigators with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration learned that Patterson was working at the bottom of a pit below the casting operation and found the company did not have an effective process for containing and managing...