# Cuts, lacerations at JOST CHEMICAL COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `20171211550` · 12/5/2017 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Saws-powered, except chainsaws
## Employer
- **Name:** JOST CHEMICAL COMPANY
- **Location:** 8150 Lackland, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63114
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was cutting a molded plastic platform using a handheld circular metal saw when he lost control and dropped the saw. The saw lacerated his right leg below the knee. He was hospitalized.

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