# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at EL PASO ARC ELECTRIC INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017032899` · 3/31/2017 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** EL PASO ARC ELECTRIC INC.
- **Location:** 12480 Pebble Hills, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79938
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading drill rods when their gloved right hand got caught in the boring machine and was injured.

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