# Cuts, lacerations at Cottonwood NRG
> OSHA SIR `2016076170` · 7/8/2016 · DEWEYVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Cottonwood NRG
- **Location:** 976 CR 4213, DEWEYVILLE, TEXAS, 77614
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in the fabrication shop when a transformer across the street from the shop exploded. The employee was struck by fragments from the transformer and received lacerations to his face and left arm.

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