# Sprains, strains, tears, unspecified at Aramark Uniform & Career Apparel, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099401` · 9/11/2018 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Sprains, strains, tears, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Clothes dryers
- **Secondary source:** Clothing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Aramark Uniform & Career Apparel, LLC
- **Location:** 2312 25th. Street North, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35234
- **NAICS:** 812332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee opened the front door to a commercial dryer to add some garments. The dryer did not turn off when the door was opened. Garments in the dryer caught her arm, twisting it and tearing tendons in her hand.

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