# Cuts, lacerations at Papillon & Byrne, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019066207` · 6/20/2019 · WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Pliers, tongs
## Employer
- **Name:** Papillon & Byrne, Inc.
- **Location:** 1965 Powis Rd., WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60185
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing an air conditioner at a customer's home. He was using a set of needle-nose pliers. The pliers slipped off from the object they were grasping and the employee's fist hit his left eye. He sustained a laceration to the globe of the left eye.

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