# Cuts, lacerations at Peco Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019055468` · 5/31/2019 · TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Clothing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Peco Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 3701 Kauloosa Avenue, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, 35401
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting chicken when he reached over a box and his plastic apron became caught on something. He was attempting to pull on his apron when his arm to flew out and struck a saw blade, resulting in an arterial laceration to the left forearm.

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