# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Surteco North America Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024087908` · 8/26/2024 · AUBURN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Surteco North America Inc
- **Location:** 95 Hickory Drive, AUBURN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17922
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting up a calender machine. The startup procedure required the employee to thread a string on a plastic pole to feed through the machine. While the employee was threading the pole, the machine caught their left thumb. While the employee was trying to extricate their thumb, the machine pulled in their right arm. They suffered a fracture to the left thumb, as well as a crushing injury and skin removal to the right arm. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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