# Crushing injuries at Woodward Communications, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018021929` · 2/26/2018 · PLATTEVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Printing machinery and equipment, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Woodward Communications, Inc.
- **Location:** 11 Means Drive, PLATTEVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53818
- **NAICS:** 323111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing material on a machine to be cut. When the employee actuated the clamp via the foot pedal, the clamp pinched the employee's left thumb, requiring surgery and hospitalization.

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