# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at ETS-Lindgren, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109714` · 10/18/2024 · DURANT, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
- **Source:** Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ETS-Lindgren, Inc.
- **Location:** 1016 Waldron Road, DURANT, OKLAHOMA, 74701
- **NAICS:** 334515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance and replacing a seal under a plexiglass viewing cylinder in a pre-expander machine. As the employee was testing the machine before putting it back into service, the viewing cylinder exploded and the employee sustained lacerations to their chest, face, right arm and hand.

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