# Cuts, lacerations at International Metal Hose Company
> OSHA SIR `20181213174` · 12/26/2018 · BELLEVUE, 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** International Metal Hose Company
- **Location:** 520 Goodrich Road, BELLEVUE, OHIO, 44811
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attaching one end of a steel strip from a pancake reel to the end of a steel strip in a machine. The machine started pulling the strip and pulled the employee's hand in, causing a deep laceration (including bone) to the right middle finger. The employee was hospitalized.

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