# Fractures at Specialty Tires of America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088175` · 8/8/2019 · INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Specialty Tires of America, Inc.
- **Location:** 1600 Washington Street, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15701
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a clam-shaped curing press to vulcanize tires. The employee had to hold a tire in the press as a bladder inflated. The employee's right hand got stuck between the tire and the bladder; the curing press cycled while the employee's hand was stuck, causing open fractures to the middle and ring fingers.

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