# Cuts, lacerations at Thermo-Mechanical Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020010055` · 1/3/2020 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Cutting handtools-power not determined, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Thermo-Mechanical Corporation
- **Location:** 429 Seabreeze Blv, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33316
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was moving boxes and items out of the way at a client's location to gain access to an air conditioning unit when a paper cutting machine with a swing blade attachment fell and cut the employee's right index finger. He was hospitalized and had skin graft surgery.

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