A Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigator will review Monday night's worker fatality at the Alcoa plant to see if any safety standards were violated, a state spokesman said Tuesday.
The unidentified worker was killed about 6:30 p.m. Monday in an accident at Alcoa's Tennessee Operations North Plant.
No further details have been released about the worker's name, gender, job duties or hometown.
Alcoa Police have not responded to requests for information by 10News.
An Alcoa spokeswoman told 10News there was "no further information to report" Tuesday.
Jeff Hentschel of the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development said the TOSHA investigator was heading to Alcoa. Weather may impact how soon the investigator begins work.
The purpose will be to document the fatality, take witness statements and look at Alcoa's safety record as far as training compliance.
"We'll try to piece together what happened, looking for safety standards violations," Hentschel said. "We're not looking to assign blame. We're looking to see if safety standards have been violated."
The review might take six to eight weeks. The review must be done in six months' time.
TOSHA issues fines when an employer is found to have violated safety standards.
Local United Steelworkers representatives were not available for comment. The plant is at 1100 East Hunt Road in Alcoa.
The North Plant is also known as the global packaging plant. Aluminum can sheet is processed there. The North Plant began operation in 1942, according to Alcoa.
The former South Plant began operation in 1913 and closed in January 2012.
In 2013, Alcoa announced it would undertake a $275 million expansion at the Tennessee Operation to make aluminum sheet for automotive production.
