# Crushing injuries at Berlin Foundry & Machine Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020109916` · 10/19/2020 · BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Berlin Foundry & Machine Company, LLC
- **Location:** 489 Goebel St., BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03570
- **NAICS:** 333512
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an industrial lathe when the tail stock on a 17,000-pound reel spool broke and the spool dropped onto his leg, crushing it. The employee was hospitalized.

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