# Cuts, lacerations at Alpha Baking Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191212631` · 12/9/2019 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Food slicers
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Baking Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 4545 West Lyndale Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a bread slicer when the blade lacerated the employee's right thumb, index finger, and middle finger. The slicer was unguarded 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*