# Cuts, lacerations at Poly-America, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `20231211257` · 12/10/2023 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Poly-America, L.P.
- **Location:** 2000 W. Marshall Drive, GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring and operating a converting machine. As the employee was removing a roll of plastic trash bags that was stuck on a shaft, the machine's push-off device/plate lacerated the top of the employee's right hand.

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