# Fractures and burns at ContiTech USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017076967` · 7/26/2017 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** ContiTech USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 4021 N. 56th Street, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68504
- **NAICS:** 326220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a sample belt from a cure press to check for length when his left hand was pulled between the stretcher ring and the torque team belts on the press resulting in fractures to his left ring and pinky fingers and burns to his left hand and forearm.

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