# Crushing injuries at Steel Dynamics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015107979` · 10/25/2015 · COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Steel Dynamics, Inc.
- **Location:** 1945 Airport Rd., COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, 39701
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning chromate applicator rollers with a no touch hand tool.  The tool was caught in the rollers and the employee's right thumb and forefinger were pulled into the rollers.  The employee was hospitalized and scheduled for surgery.

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