# Crushing injuries at Greer Steel Company
> OSHA SIR `2017021262` · 2/8/2017 · DOVER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Greer Steel Company
- **Location:** 1 Boat Street, DOVER, OHIO, 44622
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning contaminants from stripper rings on a slitter head when the employee's left arm was pulled into the running slitter and crushed. The employee was hospitalized.

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