# Cuts, lacerations at Federal Aviation Administration
> OSHA SIR `2017077216` · 7/28/2017 · RONKONKOMA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Federal Aviation Administration
- **Location:** 4205 Johnson Ave, RONKONKOMA, NEW YORK, 11779
- **NAICS:** 488111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding a muffler onto a backup generator and something got under his glove and into the skin on his right finger. The employee was hospitalized the next day for an infection.

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