# Fractures at Chicago American Manufacturing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019055263` · 5/24/2019 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Chicago American Manufacturing LLC
- **Location:** 4500 W. 47th Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60632
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 24, 2019, at approximately 0540, an employee was adjusting the sensors on the doors of a molding machine when the doors closed, trapping the employee. The employee suffered a fractured femur and fractured ribs.

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