# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Baco Enterprises
> OSHA SIR `2017043067` · 4/4/2017 · BRONX, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Chips, particles, splinters, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Baco Enterprises
- **Location:** 1190 Longwood Ave., BRONX, NEW YORK, 10474
- **NAICS:** 332510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting an operator with plasma cutting when a metal splinter went through the employee's glove and into his right thumb. The employee was hospitalized for an infection.

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