# Cuts, lacerations at TRECE, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2022054494` · 5/24/2022 · ADAIR, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bottles, jugs, flasks
- **Secondary source:** Multiple aromatics and hydrocarbon derivatives, except halogenated
## Employer
- **Name:** TRECE, INC.
- **Location:** 7569 HWY 28 WEST, ADAIR, OKLAHOMA, 74330
- **NAICS:** 334519
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A chemist was finishing a reaction. He added paraformaldehyde to a Grignard solution in a 5-liter glass jacketed reactor. The reaction mixture over-pressurized and the reactor shattered, spreading shards of glass throughout the room. The chemist sustained lacerations to the chest and thigh.

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