# Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at POLY-AMERICA, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2019054496` · 5/3/2019 · MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** POLY-AMERICA, L.P.
- **Location:** 13830 Hatcherville Rd, MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS, 77580
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing the speed sensor alignment on a plastic grinder's out-feed blower. A pipe wrench on the blower shaft spun around and caught his hand between the wrench and the blower housing resulting in lacerations to his hand and a crushing injury to his middle finger.

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