# Bruises, contusions at QPS Employment Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016109420` · 10/5/2016 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Bruises, contusions
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** QPS Employment Group, Inc.
- **Location:** North American Pipe Corporation, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53545
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to push a pipe down the trough of a grinding machine with his foot. His foot became caught between the wall and the pipe, smashing his leg. He suffered severe contusions to the lower leg that required surgery.

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