# Cuts, lacerations at Royston Gins INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017010985` · 1/31/2017 · MULESHOE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Royston Gins INC.
- **Location:** 185 CR 65, MULESHOE, TEXAS, 79347
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 1/31/2017 an employee was cleaning out an auger. Tension on the auger was released when the debris was cleared and the blade lacerated the employee's hand.

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