# Cuts, lacerations at Bartol Heating and Cooling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022098196` · 9/15/2022 · GROTON, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Hoses
- **Secondary source:** Air conditioning units
## Employer
- **Name:** Bartol Heating and Cooling, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Fort Hill Road, GROTON, CONNECTICUT, 06340
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was charging a new air conditioning unit when a hose broke free and struck him in the face. He suffered lacerations to an eye and an eyebrow.

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