# Fractures at Cleveland Metal Stamping
> OSHA SIR `2017032758` · 3/27/2017 · BEREA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Punch presses
- **Secondary source:** Pliers, tongs
## Employer
- **Name:** Cleveland Metal Stamping
- **Location:** 1231 Bagley Road, BEREA, OHIO, 44017
- **NAICS:** 332116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running the punch press and removing a piece of stamped metal from the press using pliers. The pliers got caught in the machine causing the employee's finger to get caught between the press bed and the pliers. The employee's finger was fractured and the nailbed was removed.

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