# Cuts, lacerations at Titan Machinery INC.
> OSHA SIR `20161211694` · 12/16/2016 · HIGHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Tractor, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Textiles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Titan Machinery INC.
- **Location:** 302 US Highway 14, HIGHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57345
- **NAICS:** 811111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a rag to find the source of a leak on a tractor transmission when the rag became stuck in a flywheel and subsequently pulled the employee's hand into the flywheel. The employee suffered a right-hand laceration that required stitches.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*