# Cuts, lacerations at Graphic Packaging International, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018021663` · 2/17/2018 · AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Graphic Packaging International, LLC
- **Location:** 4278 Mike Padgett Hwy, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 30906
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were replacing a damaged fabric felt on the paper machine. As the felt was being pulled into position using a new piece of threading rope, the rope broke, wrapped around both of the employee's knees, and the end of the rope struck the back of his right leg causing a deep laceration.

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