# Cuts, lacerations at Schmidt Transportation
> OSHA SIR `2023087450` · 8/15/2023 · PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Schmidt Transportation
- **Location:** 108 East Bay Road, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, 68048
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pressure washing a trailer exterior. As he was holding the hose, it slipped and water from the pressure washer nozzle grazed his left hand. The employee sustained a quarter-inch laceration to the palm side of the left middle finger.

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