# Open wounds, unspecified at George Schmitt & CO., INC.
> OSHA SIR `2022109312` · 10/24/2022 · MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Open wounds, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** George Schmitt & CO., INC.
- **Location:** Palmas Printing, MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, 32904
- **NAICS:** 323120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with a laminating machine to ensure that the rollers were an appropriate temperature when his right arm became caught on a sticky substance on the rollers and was forced into the machine. The employee sustained skin tears that exposed muscles and tendons.

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