# Cuts, lacerations at BMC
> OSHA SIR `20171111155` · 11/21/2017 · MISSOULA, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** BMC
- **Location:** 7320 EXPRESS WAY, MISSOULA, MONTANA, 59801
- **NAICS:** 337212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a machine's router bit when the machine energized and lacerated the employee's right palm. The machine was plugged in at the time of the incident.

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