# Crushing injuries at Rheem Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015031369` · 3/21/2015 · MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Rheem Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2600 GUNTER PARK DR EAST, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, 36109
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While removing scrap metal from a lathe, an employee's right thumb was crushed between the lathe and saddle.

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