# Fractures at Skana Aluminum Company
> OSHA SIR `2023087184` · 8/8/2023 · MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Skana Aluminum Company
- **Location:** 2009 Mirro Dr., MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN, 54220
- **NAICS:** 331315
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees had just set up an automated aluminum circle shear. When the shear was started up, its sheet feeding arm struck one of the employees, who suffered cracked vertebra and a cracked rib.

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