# Cuts, lacerations at Paxton Contracting, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `20161111065` · 11/28/2016 · KEARNEY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Table saws
## Employer
- **Name:** Paxton Contracting, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 2702 W. 11th St., KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, 68845
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a table saw to cut backing material when the material became snagged and pulled his right hand into the saw blade, lacerating his middle and ring fingers. The saw was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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