A West Virginia company that had not experienced a worker fatality since April 1996 lost a long-time employee in late May 2007 after a ball bearing shot out of a valve and pierced the worker's side. Maintenance worker Roger Lee Stephens, a 57- year-old married father of four children, had been employed at Special Metals Corporation in Huntington, WV, since 1992. Another worker who had been helping him escaped injury. Stephens was servicing a hydraulic bearing cap puller when a ball bearing was suddenly ejected at high velocity. A company spokeswoman said Special Metals has a low injury rate and described the […]