# Cuts, lacerations at Prime Metal Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021042867` · 4/6/2021 · GERING, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Prime Metal Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 220757 Hwy 92, GERING, NEBRASKA, 69341
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping scraps of sheet metal into a waste bin. He was retrieving some pieces of metal from the hopper when they lacerated his left index and middle fingers.

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