# Crushing injuries at Taft Gin and Seed Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019032326` · 3/4/2019 · TAFT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Taft Gin and Seed Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 7904 CR 1258, TAFT, TEXAS, 78390
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unblocking a lint cleaner when it crushed his left hand.

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