# Fractures at Rheem Manufacturing Co. Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087605` · 8/19/2024 · MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Rollers, cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Rheem Manufacturing Co. Inc.
- **Location:** 2600 Gunter Park Drive East, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, 36109
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sitting on a stool on the back side of the insertion press with their legs resting on the rollers where tanks are heated to finalize shell insertion. The insertion press cycled the up ender and it caught the employee's leg between the up ender and the rollers, causing a compound fracture to his lower left leg.

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