# Cuts, lacerations at Palram Americas, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20161211605` · 12/13/2016 · KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Palram Americas, Inc
- **Location:** 9741 Commerce Circle, KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19530
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to operate a scrap saw and was ensuring plastic would feed through it when a coworker activated the saw, severely cutting the employee's right arm. He required surgery. The saw was guarded at the time of the incident.

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