# Crushing injuries at Rubber Designs, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016076006` · 7/5/2016 · RANGER, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
## Employer
- **Name:** Rubber Designs, LLC
- **Location:** Rubber Design, RANGER, GEORGIA, 30734
- **NAICS:** 326299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a bucket to fill a rubber mixing machine when the bucket became caught in the machine. The employee tried to pull the bucket out, but the machine pulled the employee's left hand in and crushed it. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*