# Cuts, lacerations at Gary Plastics Packaging Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2019010407` · 1/14/2019 · BRONX, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Plastic injection molding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Gary Plastics Packaging Corp.
- **Location:** 1340 Viele Ave., BRONX, NEW YORK, 10474
- **NAICS:** 326111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 01/14/19, an employee was working on an injection molding machine and packing plastic parts when a piece of plastic fell to the floor. She bent down to pick it up and her scarf became caught in a grinding machine bearing, resulting in her being choked and suffering lacerations. She was hospitalized.

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