# Crushing injuries at Neenah Foundry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099126` · 9/4/2018 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Neenah Foundry, Inc.
- **Location:** 5945 N 70th Street, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68507
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was being trained by a second employee on how to cut a metal frame on a lathe. As they set the metal frame down on the lathe, the first employee's right thumb was caught and crushed between the frame and the lathe chuck.

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