# Cuts, lacerations at Ely Enterprises, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023065754` · 6/28/2023 · BARBERTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Hand grinders-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Ely Enterprises, Inc.
- **Location:** 701 West Hopocan Avenue, BARBERTON, OHIO, 44203
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a grinder on a metal baler when the grinder became caught on the employee's pants and fell, striking them in the lower leg. The employee sustained lacerations to multiple tendons that required surgery.

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