# Cuts, lacerations at Norwell Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087640` · 8/10/2017 · JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Water
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Norwell Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 809 Lamont St, JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, 37601
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was using a high-pressure water jetter to clean out a piece of large pipe when the equipment turned around on its own and high-pressure water hit the employee's left arm, lacerating it.

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