# Crushing injuries at Solo Cup Operating Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017076125` · 7/4/2017 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Solo Cup Operating Corporation
- **Location:** 7575 S. Kostner, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60652
- **NAICS:** 326140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at the plastic lid forming mold when the employee's left arm was caught between the mold wheel and a plastic sheet lay-down roller, crushing the soft tissue in the left forearm.

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