# Cuts, lacerations at Flow Polymers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099494` · 9/13/2018 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## 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:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Flow Polymers, LLC
- **Location:** 17000 St. Clair Road, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44110
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 13, 2018, an employee was attempting to clear a jam in an automated rubber cutter when the cutter lacerated his right index finger. The rubber cutter was guarded and running 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*