# Open wounds, unspecified at G.H.C. REID & COMPANY, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2020043967` · 4/30/2020 · PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Open wounds, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Hand grinders-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** G.H.C. REID & COMPANY, LTD
- **Location:** TAFUNA INDUSTRIAL PARK, PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA, 96799
- **NAICS:** 424810
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting metal with a small handheld grinder when his hands flinched, which caused the tool to come toward his face. The rotating disk severed the left side of his lip and his face below the eye. He was hospitalized.

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