# Cuts, lacerations at PRAIRIE MATERIAL
> OSHA SIR `2015096968` · 9/22/2015 · PEORIA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** PRAIRIE MATERIAL
- **Location:** 100 W. Cass, PEORIA, ILLINOIS, 61602
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hand operated push hammer to unclog the fly ash silo. A dislodged piece of fly ash pinned the employee's finger and when the employee jerked their hand out the finger was lacerated.

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