# Cuts, lacerations at UPS
> OSHA SIR `2017088331` · 8/30/2017 · SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS
## 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:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** UPS
- **Location:** 43 3rd Ave, SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, 02143
- **NAICS:** 561499
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling an unloading device down a belt when it crushed and lacerated his right hand.

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