# Fractures and burns at M. Argueso & Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021098117` · 9/21/2021 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** M. Argueso & Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 12651 Elmwood Avenue, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44111
- **NAICS:** 324199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 21, 2021, at approximately 2:30 a.m. an employee was cleaning a pastillator machine, a rotoform granulation system, when her right hand was caught and crushed in a running nip point. The employee sustained fractures and second and third degree burns to the right hand. The machine was not locked out or guarded at the time.

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