# Cuts, lacerations at VENTURA FOODS LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201211397` · 12/4/2020 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** VENTURA FOODS LLC
- **Location:** 6000 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64504
- **NAICS:** 311225
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to hook a pallet that had stopped on the conveyor belt when the long hook tripped the sensor for the automatic shuttle car. The employee was pinched between the shuttle car and the racking system, resulting in surgery for lacerations on both legs.

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