# Cuts, lacerations at PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `20181213257` · 12/29/2018 · ELBERTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION
- **Location:** 1129 OLD MIDDLETON ROAD, ELBERTON, GEORGIA, 30635
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to retrieve a box cutter that had fallen into a tape machine. The chain inside the machine lacerated the employee's left index finger. The cover had been removed from the machine 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*