# Cuts, lacerations at MPW Industrial Services
> OSHA SIR `2016087189` · 8/3/2016 · CLAIRTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Water
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** MPW Industrial Services
- **Location:** US Steel Clairton Coke Battery Plant, CLAIRTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15025
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a high-pressure water line (6,000 psi) lance to clean out a tar line when the lance kicked back and lacerated his neck and upper chest. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

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