# Crushing injuries at Boose Aluminum Foundry Company, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017065967` · 6/29/2017 · REAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Boose Aluminum Foundry Company, Incorporated
- **Location:** 77 North Reamstown Road, REAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17567
- **NAICS:** 331524
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning around a knock-down machine when his right thumb was crushed, requiring surgery.

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