# Cuts, lacerations at Alabama Painting Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021109101` · 10/21/2021 · CHEROKEE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Presses, except printing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Painting Inc.
- **Location:** Esiity Barton Mill, CHEROKEE, ALABAMA, 35616
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking into a machine shop area. He fell and hit a ball bearing press that was bolted to the floor. He suffered lacerations to the left forearm and hand and was hospitalized.

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