# Cuts, lacerations at Smith & Wesson Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2016031980` · 3/5/2016 · SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Smith & Wesson Corp.
- **Location:** 2100 Roosevelt Avenue, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01104
- **NAICS:** 332994
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading metal stock into a CNC machine when his right thumb struck against the machine and was lacerated. He was hospitalized when the laceration became infected.

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