# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at SMI Holdings dba Stampede Meat, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065246` · 6/13/2024 · BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** SMI Holdings dba Stampede Meat, Inc.
- **Location:** 7035 W. 65th Street, BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS, 60638
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up the meat band saw to use it and was investigating a noise from the machine when the blade lacerated his thumb.

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