# Cuts, lacerations at Tidewater Equipment Company
> OSHA SIR `2015108040` · 10/27/2015 · FORSYTH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Loaders, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Tidewater Equipment Company
- **Location:** Lick Skillet Rd, FORSYTH, GEORGIA, 31029
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hospitalized due to a severe cut while working on a TigerCat 234 Loader. The compensator was forcibly ejected from the valve body by hydraulic fluid pressure cutting the webbing between his left hand index and middle finger and forcing hydraulic fluid into the cut.

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