# Cuts, lacerations at Wisconsin Distributors East, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171010089` · 10/20/2017 · SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Wisconsin Distributors East, LLC
- **Location:** 900 Progress Way, SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN, 53590
- **NAICS:** 424810
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding a pressure washer in his right hand and a drain tube in his left. The drain tube had a small hole in it. When the employee blew water into the drain tube, high-pressure water came out of the hole and lacerated his left hand between the middle and ring fingers. He was hospitalized.

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