# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Gates Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024021582` · 2/20/2024 · GALESBURG, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Gates Corporation
- **Location:** 630 US Highway 150 E, GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, 61401
- **NAICS:** 326220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 20, 2024, at approximately 6:30 a.m., an employee was unjamming rubber that had become stuck in a machine. When the machine started, the flapper moved, striking and compressing the employee. The employee was hospitalized for three fractured ribs, a partially collapsed lung, and a puncture wound in the middle of their back.

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