# Cuts, lacerations at True North Seafood Company
> OSHA SIR `20211210648` · 12/11/2021 · NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** True North Seafood Company
- **Location:** 14 South Street, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02740
- **NAICS:** 311710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a skinning machine back together when its top part came loose and fell. When the employee caught it, its sharp edge cut his right middle, ring, and little fingers.

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