# Cuts, lacerations at Smithfield Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022010207` · 1/8/2022 · SAINT CHARLES, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 410 Kirk Road, SAINT CHARLES, ILLINOIS, 60174
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tearing down a vacuum stuffer at the end of a shift. As he tried to lower the hopper on top of the stuffer, the lid slammed shut on his left hand and severely lacerated it. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the hand.

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