# Cuts, lacerations at Horsehead Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016065514` · 6/21/2016 · PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Horsehead Corporation
- **Location:** 900 Delaware Avenue, PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18071
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a scraper on a moving belt conveyor when the tail pulley severely lacerated the employee's left calf muscle. The employee was hospitalized overnight.

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