# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at POWER MOTIVE CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2025088238` · 8/19/2025 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Buttock(s)
- **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:** Sledges, sledgehammers
## Employer
- **Name:** POWER MOTIVE CORPORATION
- **Location:** 5000 VASQUEZ BLVD, DENVER, COLORADO, 80216
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an excavator's tracks. He was swinging a sledgehammer to finish pushing a metal tractor pin into the track links. A hammer-blow caused a piece of the pin to fly off, ricochet, and embed itself in his buttock. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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