# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Futamura USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086657` · 8/8/2021 · TECUMSEH, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Futamura USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 6000 SE 2nd St, TECUMSEH, KANSAS, 66542
- **NAICS:** 325220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had climbed onto a machine platform and gotten down on his hands and knees to look for the cause of a defect in film that was running on a slitting machine. He slipped and his left hand went into the machine, where it was caught between a roller and a bar. He suffered broken tendons in the hand and wrist.

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