# Cuts, lacerations at Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020098963` · 9/21/2020 · BLACKSHEAR, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Angle irons
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 6773 U.S. Highway 84, BLACKSHEAR, GEORGIA, 31516
- **NAICS:** 112310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting the insulation of a drag conveyor when a piece of angle iron fell into an opening in the housing. The drag conveyor then contacted the angle iron causing it to strike an employee's left thumb. The employee's thumb sustained a deep laceration.

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