# Cuts, lacerations at Ashta Chemicals Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019077068` · 7/12/2019 · ASHTABULA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Strapping
## Employer
- **Name:** Ashta Chemicals Inc.
- **Location:** 3509 Middle Road, ASHTABULA, OHIO, 44004
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a truck. While positioning a steel chemical drum on a drum tipper apparatus, the drum slipped through the straps and pinched the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized for a severe laceration to the thumb.

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