# Cuts, lacerations at Earth Color Co.
> OSHA SIR `2017032552` · 3/20/2017 · PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Earth Color Co.
- **Location:** 249 Pomeroy RD, PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY, 07054
- **NAICS:** 323112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a shrink wrap machine and caught her right hand in the running machine resulting in a severe laceration to the right index finger.

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