# Multiple surface and flesh wounds at Neiman Enterprises, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109336` · 10/7/2024 · SPEARFISH, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple surface and flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Planing mills
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Neiman Enterprises, Inc.
- **Location:** 1510 West Oliver Street, SPEARFISH, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57783
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a planer bander when the photo-sensing eye was tripped and the press started moving. The employee was pinched between the conveyor roller and a plate. The employee sustained lacerations, bruises, and abrasions to the lower extremities that required stitches and staples, as well as compartment syndrome. The machine was not completely de-energized or locked out/tagged out at the time.

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