# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at Tropicana Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025077151` · 7/22/2025 · BRADENTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Rollers, cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Tropicana Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1001 13TH AVENUE EAST, BRADENTON, FLORIDA, 34208
- **NAICS:** 311411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was troubleshooting to determine why a pallet was not traveling along a continuous vertical conveyor. The conveyor's rollers caused a crushing/laceration injury to the employee's right hand that required surgery.

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