# Crushing injuries at United Roofing Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019065932` · 6/12/2019 · EUTAW, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United Roofing Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 861 Finches Ferry Road, EUTAW, ALABAMA, 35462
- **NAICS:** 324122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was addressing a break in the paper product on a production line. The employee removed some asphalt-saturated paper from the saturator box. As the employee attempted to remove additional paper from the machinery, the employee's gloved left hand became caught and crushed on a roller. The employee was hospitalized.

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