# Cuts, lacerations at Multi-Plastics Extrusions, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017054742` · 5/25/2017 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Multi-Plastics Extrusions, Incorporated
- **Location:** 600 Dietrich Avenue, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18201
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a large screwdriver to clean hot plastic from the stationary cutting head of an operating repellitizer when the employee's right hand slipped and struck the cutting head blades, severing two tendons and lacerating the hand.

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