# Cuts, lacerations at Kerry Ingredients & Flavours Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201212010` · 12/27/2020 · MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Kerry Ingredients & Flavours Inc.
- **Location:** 3141 W. NORTH AVENUE, MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS, 60160
- **NAICS:** 311822
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to remove a safety block from a machine with a pry bar when the pry bar struck the employee in the face, resulting in lacerations to his face and right eye and requiring surgery to his right eye.

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