# Cuts, lacerations at San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032658` · 3/23/2017 · CHRISTINE, TEXAS
## 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:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** 6200 FM 3387, CHRISTINE, TEXAS, 78012
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were inserting 6-foot pipe into a mill lathe. When the machine turned on, one of the employee's hands was caught between the lathe and valve stem resulting in lacerations to two fingers on the right hand.

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