# Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury at Commercial Metals Company
> OSHA SIR `2020109330` · 10/1/2020 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Metal chips, particles
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Commercial Metals Company
- **Location:** 1729 N. Westmoreland Road, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75212
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been installing new blades on a wire chopper granulator. A metal shard got in the employee's left eye and the employee was hospitalized.

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