# Cuts, lacerations at Swanson Health Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111561` · 11/9/2018 · FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Pumps
## Employer
- **Name:** Swanson Health Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 4075 40th Avenue Southwest, FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58108
- **NAICS:** 446191
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had removed the filter from the end of a vacuum pump when the rotating fan blade severely cut his middle fingertip. The pump was running at the time of the incident.

---
*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*