# Cuts, lacerations at City Window Cleaning, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099104` · 9/4/2018 · NEWARK, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(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:** City Window Cleaning, Inc.
- **Location:** 587 Old Baltimore Pike, NEWARK, DELAWARE, 19702
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was scrubbing an aluminum panel while a coworker was pressure washing nearby when the water jet from the coworker's pressure washer lacerated the employee's finger. He was hospitalized and required stitches.

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