# Cuts, lacerations at Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065107` · 6/5/2017 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Cutting handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc.
- **Location:** 351 N. Nevarez Road, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79927
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was segregating metal at the recycling shop when he cut his thumb with metal shears, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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