# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at Austin Wood & Recycling
> OSHA SIR `20211211004` · 12/22/2021 · DRIPPING SPRINGS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Wood & Recycling
- **Location:** Headwaters Blvd and US-290, DRIPPING SPRINGS, TEXAS, 78620
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning mud from the drive belt of a jammed grinder when the belt turned and caught his feet against the leading edge of the grinder. He suffered a laceration to the right foot and bruising on his left foot.

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