# Crushing injuries at Allied Metal Company
> OSHA SIR `20181011223` · 10/31/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Metal Company
- **Location:** 4528 W. Division St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60803
- **NAICS:** 331314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at the furnace raking iron when a furnace tending machine pulled the employee into a beam causing a crushing injury to the employee's left hand.

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