# Fractures at Ellwood Specialty Steel
> OSHA SIR `2017042966` · 4/1/2017 · NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Ellwood Specialty Steel
- **Location:** 499 Honeybee Lane, NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16105
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a steel bar on a lathe and tried to move the steady rest, which was open. When contacted, the top part of the steady rest fell onto and broke his right hand. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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