# Crushing injuries at JBS Souderton, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016109575` · 10/11/2016 · SOUDERTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** JBS Souderton, Inc.
- **Location:** 249 Allentown Road, SOUDERTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18964
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance when a restraint failed on an air driven system, allowing a door to close on and crush the employee's hand.

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