# Fractures at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
> OSHA SIR `2024021253` · 2/9/2024 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- **Location:** 2000 NW US HIGHWAY 24, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66601
- **NAICS:** 423130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making beads on a machine when the center bead wire did not seat properly in the machine. The bead wire struck the employee's left hand, resulting in an open displaced fracture of the middle phalanx of the ring finger that required surgery.

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