# Cuts, lacerations at PRAIRIE CREEK GRAIN COMPANY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021064848` · 6/15/2021 · MOMENCE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Agricultural and garden machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** PRAIRIE CREEK GRAIN COMPANY, INC.
- **Location:** 503 E Ohio Street, MOMENCE, ILLINOIS, 60954
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were trying to unload a grain bin. The unload holes were plugged up, so they cut a hole in the side to drain the bin. One of the employees stepped on a nearby U-trough auger and his left foot went through a part of the auger. The auger caught and lacerated his foot.

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