# Cuts, lacerations at Alpha Technical Services Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016065611` · 6/23/2016 · PASADENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Technical Services Corporation
- **Location:** 5100 Underwood Road, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77507
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a mobile field storage tank with a pressure washer hose when it shot him in the left hand with 5,000-psi water pressure, lacerating his middle finger and causing tendon damage.

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