# Cuts, lacerations at ESCO Group, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20181213252` · 12/29/2018 · NEWTON, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Hand grinders-powered
- **Secondary source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** ESCO Group, LLC.
- **Location:** 9098 Eastside Drive Extension, NEWTON, MISSISSIPPI, 39345
- **NAICS:** 333131
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hand-held angle grinder to cut 1/8" wire. As he was cutting the wire it became entangled in the grinding wheel and the wire struck the employee. The employee sustained lacerations to the first and third fingers on the left hand and two tendons were cut on the left index finger.

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