# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Kelpe Contracting Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010082` · 1/4/2024 · WILDWOOD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Chips, pellets  metal
- **Secondary source:** Grinders  handtool
## Employer
- **Name:** Kelpe Contracting Inc.
- **Location:** 18445 St Albans Rd., WILDWOOD, MISSOURI, 63038
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a grinder to grind the hitch of a truck. The grinding disc got caught and exploded. Pieces of the disc struck the employee above their left eyelid causing a laceration to left eye, nose, and eye lid that required surgery.

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