# Cuts, lacerations at Bell Flight
> OSHA SIR `20211210399` · 12/3/2021 · HURST, TEXAS
## 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:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Bell Flight
- **Location:** 3000 South Norwood, HURST, TEXAS, 76053
- **NAICS:** 336411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preforming a boring operation on an aircraft part. Following a machine setup procedure, the employee initiated the milling cycle and simultaneously identified a cylinder-shaped calibration tool left in the boring axis. The employee was attempting to prevent the spinning drill bit from coming in contact with the calibration tool when his left middle finger became caught between the spinning parts, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization and surgery.

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