# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Peerless Products Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022021131` · 2/7/2022 · FORT SCOTT, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal chips, particles
## Employer
- **Name:** Peerless Products Inc
- **Location:** 2403 S Main St, FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, 66701
- **NAICS:** 332321
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting aluminum parts with a saw when a saw chip fell in his shoe and embedded into his skin, resulting in a sore that became infected and that required hospitalization.

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