# Cuts, lacerations at Silgan Plastics Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021053708` · 5/5/2021 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## 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:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Silgan Plastics Corporation
- **Location:** 6814 Kirbyville Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77033
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a hot blade from a machine and lacerated three fingers on his right hand and one finger on his left hand. The employee was hospitalized.

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