# Cuts, lacerations at AMERICAN WALNUT CO.
> OSHA SIR `2015129387` · 12/11/2015 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** AMERICAN WALNUT CO.
- **Location:** 2801 S. 2ND STREET, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64501
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee in the Planing Area was working at the middle wood profiler. When she reached over to the pallet next to her to pick up an air hose with her left hand, her right sleeve became caught in the wood profiler's cutter head. The employee received lacerations to her right forearm and was hospitalized.

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