# Multiple types of open wounds at Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., LTD. dba PSSI
> OSHA SIR `2020010779` · 1/24/2020 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple types of open wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., LTD. dba PSSI
- **Location:** 4201 S. Ashland Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60609
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spraying food processing equipment with a hose when the machine started running and caught the hose. The employee attempted to pull back on the hose and the employee's left hand was pulled into the machine, causing a laceration and penetrating injuries to the left hand.

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