# Cuts, lacerations at Troy Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2015063985` · 6/23/2015 · TROY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Chips, particles, splinters, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nail guns-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Troy Medical Center
- **Location:** 1330 Hwy 231 South, TROY, ALABAMA, 36081
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hospitalized when a pneumatic nail gun exploded causing fragments to be embedded in the right thigh and lacerating the right arm.

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