# Cuts, lacerations at Wahl Clipper Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020043627` · 4/20/2020 · STERLING, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Dies, molds, patterns
- **Secondary source:** Dies, molds, patterns
## Employer
- **Name:** Wahl Clipper Corporation
- **Location:** 2900 N. LOCUST STREET, STERLING, ILLINOIS, 61081
- **NAICS:** 335210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was helping move a die that was sitting on a pallet. The die tilted and pinched the employee's right little finger against another die causing a cut that required surgery and hospitalization.

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