# Crushing injuries at Clear Lam Packaging, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010538` · 1/17/2017 · ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Clear Lam Packaging, Inc.
- **Location:** 1950 Pratt Blvd., ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS, 60007
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling out a core from the laminator machine when his left index finger and thumb were crushed between the core and spindle chuck.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*