# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp Middletown Works
> OSHA SIR `2025088048` · 8/13/2025 · MIDDLETOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Chutes
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp Middletown Works
- **Location:** 1801 Crawford Street, MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, 45044
- **NAICS:** 332111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a blocked scrap chute with a spud bar. The piece of stuck scrap came free and fell toward the employee and lacerating the employee's left hand between the thumb and the index finger. The employee was hospitalized.

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