# Cuts, lacerations at Aquilex HydroChem, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016043366` · 4/21/2016 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Aquilex HydroChem, LLC
- **Location:** 8811 Strang Road, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hydro blasting on top of a vertical exchanger with a 20,000-psi cleaning lance when he lost his balance and control of the lance. The water stream from the lance cut through his metatarsal boot, lacerating the top of his right foot.

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