# Cuts, lacerations at First Nick Painting Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019044335` · 4/29/2019 · HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Paint
- **Secondary source:** Sprayers, air guns-paint
## Employer
- **Name:** First Nick Painting Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 236 Beal St., HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, 02043
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spraying walls and ceilings with paint. While trying to fix the tip of the paint sprayer, the air valve trigger was pressed and the employee suffered a small cut on the left side of the thumb. Paint got inside the wound and the employee was hospitalized for an infection requiring surgery.

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