# Cuts, lacerations at Galaxie Industrial Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099311` · 9/9/2018 · WEIRTON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Galaxie Industrial Services, LLC
- **Location:** 100 Pennsylvania Avenue, WEIRTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 26062
- **NAICS:** 562112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning inside a tank with a pressure washer. The stream from the washer cut through the employee's right boot and into the employee's foot.

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