# Cuts, lacerations at Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043773` · 4/19/2018 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Scrap metal
- **Secondary source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc.
- **Location:** 351 N. Nevarez Road, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79927
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting metal in an alligator shear machine when a piece of cast aluminum flew off and jammed his left index finger causing two one-inch lacerations.

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