# Cuts, lacerations at VanVoorst Lumber Company
> OSHA SIR `20161110440` · 11/5/2016 · UNION HILL, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s) and arms(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** VanVoorst Lumber Company
- **Location:** 1 Center Street, UNION HILL, ILLINOIS, 60969
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an air hose to blow off the router bit on a router machine. The employee's sleeve was caught in the rotating router bit, pulling his arm into the rotating equipment. He suffered a laceration on his right elbow up to his armpit. The router machine was in operation at the time of the incident.

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