# Cuts, lacerations at Smith & Loveless, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010291` · 1/10/2018 · LENEXA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** Smith & Loveless, Inc.
- **Location:** 14040 Santa Fe Trail Dr., LENEXA, KANSAS, 66215
- **NAICS:** 333911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was showing another employee a sensor that needed to be changed on an auger when his arm was caught and pulled into the auger. The auger lacerated his right arm and struck an artery.

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