# Cuts, lacerations at Poly-Pak Industries, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20201211552` · 12/9/2020 · MELVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses-printing
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Poly-Pak Industries, Inc
- **Location:** 125 Spagnoli Road, MELVILLE, NEW YORK, 11747
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On December 9, 2020, an employee was operating a printing press and was trying to tighten a cap bolt that holds the cylinders in place on the back side of the press near a sprocket wheel and chain. His shirt sleeve became caught in the nip point of the sprocket wheel and chain and his right forearm was pulled into the machine resulting in a laceration to the lower right forearm.

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