# Crushing injuries at Imperial Casting Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021075850` · 7/16/2021 · FLORENCE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Imperial Casting Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 4440 Chisolm Road, FLORENCE, ALABAMA, 35630
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the pit under a molding machine. The machine cycled, and the rotating loading plate struck the employee in the head. He was then caught between the loading plate and the loading grate when the machine moved to cycle again. The employee suffered internal crushing injuries to the upper body and head.

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