# Cuts, lacerations at Triumph Actuation Systems - Connecticut, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022021732` · 2/23/2022 · WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Nitrogen
## Employer
- **Name:** Triumph Actuation Systems - Connecticut, LLC
- **Location:** 175 Addison Road, WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT, 06095
- **NAICS:** 336412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing maintenance on an accumulator that maintained pressure for a power steering unit. As the employee loosened a valve, pressurized nitrogen gas was released from a fitting into his left hand. He suffered a 1-inch laceration to the hand and thumb.

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