# Cuts, lacerations at Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085833` · 8/17/2015 · HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1437 Broadway, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was packing bags of baked snacks into shipping boxes. While moving from the packing area to another section of the plant, the employee went under a portable conveyor and pulled it down while trying to support their weight. The conveyor belt fell onto the employee, lacerating the head and arm and requiring arterial cauterization.

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