# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at ALDRICH CLEAN-TECH EQUIPMENT CORP.
> OSHA SIR `20191212459` · 12/4/2019 · NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Clothes dryers
## Employer
- **Name:** ALDRICH CLEAN-TECH EQUIPMENT CORP.
- **Location:** 1066 County Street, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02746
- **NAICS:** 423850
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a commercial dryer. A pulley on the dryer started to rotate as the employee was holding it, causing a puncture on the employee's left hand.

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