# Crushing injuries at J.L. Clark LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017032453` · 3/16/2017 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** J.L. Clark LLC
- **Location:** 923 23rd Ave, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61104
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 16, 2017, at approximately 9:50 p.m., an employee was hand cleaning the powered in-feed rollers used for pulling steel sheet from the steel sheet coil located on the nearby mandrel using a rag with a solvent when the employee's right hand was pulled in between the two rollers and crushed.

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