# Crushing injuries at Bardes Plastics, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2019011120` · 1/30/2019 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Bardes Plastics, Inc
- **Location:** 5225 West Clinton Avenue, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53223
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a thermo-forming press and placing a shim while standing on a step stool. The employee slipped and inadvertently activated the press crushing his left thumb. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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