# Cuts, lacerations at Louis Meskan Brass Foundry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088958` · 8/28/2019 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Louis Meskan Brass Foundry, Inc.
- **Location:** 2007-13 N. Major Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 331525
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A conveyor jammed and was at a complete stop. An employee cleared the jam and the conveyor activated. It caught his right glove and pulled his hand in, lacerating it.

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