# Cuts, lacerations at Smithfield Hog Production - Missouri
> OSHA SIR `2016032272` · 3/15/2016 · POWERSVILLE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Swine and other porcines
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Hog Production - Missouri
- **Location:** Somerset, POWERSVILLE, MISSOURI, 64672
- **NAICS:** 112210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading hogs onto a trailer when two hogs darted out and pushed a gate into the employee. He fell and struck his head, suffering a 2- to 3-inch head laceration and requiring hospitalization.

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