# Cuts, lacerations at JOHN MORRELL, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016010397` · 1/15/2016 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **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:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** JOHN MORRELL, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 NORTH WEBER AVENUE, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was injured while hanging a dropped hog onto a rail with a chain hoist.  The hog and hanger assembly fell, landed on a floor conveyor, and bounced off striking the employee on the outside of his knee. The hangar portion of the assembly caused a puncture wound to the knee and lacerated a tendon.

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