# Cuts, lacerations at Rivian Automotive, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021834` · 2/27/2023 · NORMAL, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rivian Automotive, LLC
- **Location:** 100 Rivian Motorway, NORMAL, ILLINOIS, 61761
- **NAICS:** 336111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing work on a truck body at the entrance of a paint shop when the truck body moved on the conveying system, causing the employee to get struck by the open gear tunnel door. The employee was hospitalized for a lower back laceration that required surgery.

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