# Cuts, lacerations at JBS Foods, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021064584` · 6/5/2021 · GREELEY, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
- **Source:** Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** JBS Foods, Inc
- **Location:** 800 N 8th Avenue, GREELEY, COLORADO, 80631
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were attaching bungee cords to keep hides separated between carcasses. Two S-hooks on a bungee cord became entangled and began stretching. As an employee drew her knife to cut the bungee cords apart, the knife lacerated another employee s left arm above the elbow.

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