# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Marathon Cheese Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024032412` · 3/18/2024 · MARATHON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food slicers
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Marathon Cheese Corporation
- **Location:** 304 East St., MARATHON, WISCONSIN, 54448
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a flow control access cover on a slicer that was not locked out after troubleshooting it. While replacing the cover, the machine cycled and the traveling blade gate assembly passed the machine's framework and created a pinch point that caused a crush injury and laceration to the employee's left middle finger. The employee was hospitalized.

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