# Cuts, lacerations at Niagara Bottling LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023010763` · 1/24/2023 · HOWARD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Product labeling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Niagara Bottling LLC
- **Location:** 217 Aquapenn Drive, HOWARD, PENNSYLVANIA, 16841
- **NAICS:** 312112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the sawblade on a labeler. When he applied pressure as part of the installation, the blade cut through plastic sheathing and lacerated his right palm. He was hospitalized.

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