# Cuts, lacerations at Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021043367` · 4/22/2021 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Inc.
- **Location:** 2120 Fairmont Avenue, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19612
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving three tooling plates to a cleaning area with a magnetic hoist. The plates bumped into the cleaning station and one of them was jarred loose. It fell and struck the employee's left leg, lacerating it.

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