# Cuts, lacerations at Confortaire, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043089` · 4/5/2017 · TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Confortaire, Inc.
- **Location:** 2133 South Veterans Blvd, TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, 38804
- **NAICS:** 326140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting fabric strips on a strip machine when it jammed. While trying to clear the jam, the machine's blade came down and lacerated and fractured the employee's left index finger and thumb.

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