# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at SpecChem, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021076339` · 7/30/2021 · EDWARDSVILLE, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** SpecChem, LLC
- **Location:** 9501-B Woodend Road, EDWARDSVILLE, KANSAS, 66111
- **NAICS:** 327310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been flipping a 50-pound bag over. The employee's glove got caught on a chain conveyor, pulling his hand and wrist into the conveyor. The employee sustained soft tissue damage to the hand and wrist/forearm.

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