# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Kostusiak Coating & Construction, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023076498` · 7/20/2023 · ELMA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Paint
- **Secondary source:** Sprayers, air guns-paint
## Employer
- **Name:** Kostusiak Coating & Construction, Inc
- **Location:** 1961 Bullis Road, ELMA, NEW YORK, 14059
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the clogged nozzle of a paint sprayer when paint was injected into their left middle finger at a pressure between 2,500 and 3,000 psi. The employee was hospitalized.

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