# Cuts, lacerations at Professional Sunshine Roofing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010763` · 10/15/2019 · FERNANDINA BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Saws-powered, except chainsaws
## Employer
- **Name:** Professional Sunshine Roofing, Inc.
- **Location:** 862803 N. Hampton Clubway, FERNANDINA BEACH, FLORIDA, 32034
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a handheld circular saw to cut wooden planks when the saw blade came in contact with his lower leg area, causing a severe laceration to his right calf muscle that required hospitalization and surgery. He was installing a roof at a residential construction site at the time of the accident.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*