# Cuts, lacerations at Costco Wholesale
> OSHA SIR `2021098241` · 9/24/2021 · PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale
- **Location:** 16261 South Blvd Pl, PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS, 60586
- **NAICS:** 452311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling a piece of meat out of a meat grinder when they suffered lacerations to their right index finger.

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