# Cuts, lacerations at Ozark Mountain Poultry
> OSHA SIR `2015096708` · 9/14/2015 · BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Ozark Mountain Poultry
- **Location:** 1420 Saint Louis St, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72501
- **NAICS:** 112340
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting trays of chicks into the tray washer. The employee reached into the tray washer machine to remove a chick when his glove got caught on the chain and sprocket. He suffered lacerations to his right hand between the index and middle finger.

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