# Cuts, lacerations at MERRIMAC SPOOL & REEL CO., INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021108664` · 10/7/2021 · HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** MERRIMAC SPOOL & REEL CO., INC.
- **Location:** 203 ESSEX STREET, HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS, 01832
- **NAICS:** 322214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an industrial stapling machine and was wiping excess oil off of the tip of the machine when the machine stapled/lacerated a finger.

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