# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2025066262` · 6/30/2025 · CRETE, NEBRASKA
## 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 suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 2223 Industrial Road, CRETE, NEBRASKA, 68333
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was applying spreader hooks to hogs. A hog fell from the hook that he was holding upright and the hook lacerated a tendon in his left hand. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

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