# Crushing injuries at Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017088410` · 8/31/2017 · PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.
- **Location:** 5100 Industrial Dr. South, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71602
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was pushing a metal cart that was filled with wire when his left ring finger was lacerated and crushed in a pinch point between the cart and an adjacent sine drawing machine. He required surgery.

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