# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at The Perryman Company
> OSHA SIR `2025088321` · 8/20/2025 · COAL CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Scrap metal
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The Perryman Company
- **Location:** 625 Technology Drive, COAL CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 15423
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring a conveyor at the operator station. A piece of metal was fed to a conveyor system and it struck another piece of metal, causing a piece of titanium (1-inch-long and 1/2-inch-wide) to break off and strike the employee in their upper chest below the clavicle. The employee was hospitalized and the embedded piece of metal was surgically removed.

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