# Cuts, lacerations at Plant Maintenance Services
> OSHA SIR `2018099773` · 9/20/2018 · SIBLEY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Plant Maintenance Services
- **Location:** 33200 E Johnson Rd, SIBLEY, MISSOURI, 64088
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a 10-inch line using a high-pressure hydro-blaster with a lance at the nozzle tip when the lance pushed back out of the pipe opening and the tip kicked, redirecting the pressurized water across the employee's left forearm and causing a water laceration.

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