# Cuts, lacerations at MENARD, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2020010236` · 1/9/2020 · EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** MENARD, INC.
- **Location:** 4787 County Line Road, EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, 54703
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 9, 2020, an industrial mechanic was replacing suction cups on an end-of-arm tool for a robotic depalletizing machine in a distribution plant. The employee was on an elevated depalletizing table between the depalletizing machine and a conveyor. A mechanical bar (used to push palletized merchandise from the depalletizing table onto the adjacent conveyor) struck the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized, requiring stitches and then surgery. The area was guarded with light curtains 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*