# Cuts, lacerations at Professional Swine Employment LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020109595` · 10/8/2020 · HIGBEE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Power washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Professional Swine Employment LLC
- **Location:** 2948 County road 2425, HIGBEE, MISSOURI, 65257
- **NAICS:** 112210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was washing a barn using a pressure washer. Pressurized water struck a divider board, which then fell and struck the employee's arm causing the hand holding the pressure washer hose to angle down. The pressurized water then lacerated the employee's right foot behind the steel toe of his boot. The employee was hospitalized.

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