# Cuts, lacerations at Allied Fitting LP
> OSHA SIR `2017010989` · 1/31/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Metal chips, particles
- **Secondary source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Fitting LP
- **Location:** 7200 Mykawa Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77033
- **NAICS:** 332919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting carbon steel metal on a lathe machine. A metal shaving from the cut coiled up and fell into the tee, a fitting used to connect pipe. The material is on a rotating part. A portion of the metal shaving was pushed out of the tee and struck the employee's upper leg above the knee and lacerated it.

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