# Cuts, lacerations at Union Metal Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020010611` · 1/20/2020 · CANTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Union Metal Corporation
- **Location:** 1432 MAPLE AVE. NE, CANTON, OHIO, 44705
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving metal in a forming machine when an adjacent employee hit a button, causing the machine and metal to cycle in the wrong direction. The metal struck the employee's leg, causing severe leg lacerations that required hospitalization.

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