# Cuts, lacerations at Hill Services Industrial & Environmental
> OSHA SIR `2018054596` · 5/11/2018 · ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Hill Services Industrial & Environmental
- **Location:** 10930 Darracott Rd., ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI, 39730
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hydro blasting a vertical pipe with a lancer to unclog the pipe.  When the material that was clogging the pipe broke free, it knocked the lancer out of the pipe. The employee was then hit on the left arm by the lancer water pressure, suffering a laceration.

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