# Crushing injuries at Siemens Building Technologies
> OSHA SIR `20181212541` · 12/6/2018 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Siemens Building Technologies
- **Location:** America's Mart, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30303
- **NAICS:** 561790
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing an end bell (round heavy piece of steel) from a chiller unit. The end bell slipped and fell on the employee's foot crushing bones that required surgery.

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