# Blindness, low vision at Pacific Manufacturing Ohio
> OSHA SIR `20201111228` · 11/30/2020 · FAIRFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Blindness, low vision
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pacific Manufacturing Ohio
- **Location:** 8955 Seward Rd., FAIRFIELD, OHIO, 45011
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a bind between a coil of steel and a coil guide. The guide dropped down and its handle struck the employee in the eye. The employee was hospitalized and lost vision in the left eye.

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