# Cuts, lacerations at Valentine Enterprise, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019010604` · 1/17/2019 · LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Valentine Enterprise, Inc.
- **Location:** 1291 Progress Center Ave., LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, 30043
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading bags of powdered mixture into a sifter. While he was trying to retrieve a fallen box cutter from the hopper, the rotating blade in the hopper severely cut fingers on his right hand.

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