# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Martco LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025043745` · 4/22/2025 · CHOPIN, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Sanding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Martco LLC
- **Location:** 1695 Highway 490, CHOPIN, LOUISIANA, 71447
- **NAICS:** 321219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 8:00 a.m. on April 22, 2025, an employee was responding to a tracking fault on the bottom head of a six-head sander. While he was straightening the belt, his right hand was pulled in, wedged, and lacerated. He was hospitalized.

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