# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Exxon Mobile Baytown Marine Terminal
> OSHA SIR `2022053886` · 5/5/2022 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Exxon Mobile Baytown Marine Terminal
- **Location:** 5000 Bayway Drive, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
- **NAICS:** 324110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping purge a product line with nitrogen. A piece of solidified plastic came out of the product pipeline at the open flange end and impaled the employee's hand.

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