# Cuts, lacerations at Kuhn North America
> OSHA SIR `2016054647` · 5/26/2016 · GREELEY, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Kuhn North America
- **Location:** 701 Cherry Ave., GREELEY, COLORADO, 80631
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a portable grinder to cut a metal stand when the grinder wheel shattered and caught his glove, pulling his hand into the grinder blade. He required surgery and hospitalization for a hand laceration.

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