# Crushing injuries at Signode Services
> OSHA SIR `20161110752` · 11/16/2016 · MOSCOW, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Signode Services
- **Location:** Northwest Cotton Growers Coop Gin, MOSCOW, KANSAS, 67952
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing a strapping machine that applies multiple polyester straps to compressed bales of cotton. The employee was checking the point were a friction weld fuses the two ends of the strapping together when the employee's right arm/wrist became strapped and trapped to the expanding bale of cotton. The right arm was caught and compressed under considerable pressure, requiring hospitalization.

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