# Cuts, lacerations at MPW Industrial Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017088210` · 8/25/2017 · CANTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** MPW Industrial Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 3715 Whipple Ave. SW, CANTON, OHIO, 44706
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing approximately 20 feet away from a coworker that was hooking up a 6,000 psi sewer jet to clean out a pipeline. When the hose was turned on in the truck, the hose came out of the pipeline and sprayed the employee's chest just below the breast line. The employee was cut and hospitalized.

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