# Dislocation of joints at Crothall Laundry Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171010302` · 10/26/2017 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Dislocation of joints
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Clothes washers
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Crothall Laundry Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 323 E. Upper Wacker Dr., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60601
- **NAICS:** 812332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a finished load of washed laundry from a side-loaded industrial washing machine when the drum spun, catching the employee's shirt sleeve and dislocating the employee's left elbow.

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