# Fractures at Midwest Scrap Management
> OSHA SIR `20201111232` · 11/30/2020 · PARK CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Scrap Management
- **Location:** 850 East 45th Street North, PARK CITY, KANSAS, 67219
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking a double feed roller hydraulic assembly to see if any obstructions were keeping it from opening all the way. As the employee removed a piece of steel, the employee was crushed in the hydraulic assembly resulting in fractured ribs and vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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