# Crushing injuries at Hormel Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021076367` · 7/31/2021 · BELOIT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Hormel Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 3000 Kennedy Drive, BELOIT, WISCONSIN, 53511
- **NAICS:** 311422
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a portable belt conveyor when their right hand contacted the power end of the belt conveyor, which crushed the employee's hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*