# Crushing injuries at Kwangsung America Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017054473` · 5/17/2017 · DADEVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Kwangsung America Corporation
- **Location:** 217 Thweatt Industrial Park Blvd., DADEVILLE, ALABAMA, 36853
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading the resonator into the blow mold machine when the employee's shirt was caught in the machine which made him stumble and hit the actuation button for the clamps. A clamp closed on the employee's right middle finger, crushing it.

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