Tongue lacerations from falls or sports injuries are common in children, but one boy was unlucky enough to have his tongue cut open after getting it trapped in an electric nail clipper, doctors report.

The four-year-old in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was brought to the ED after he got the tip of his tongue pulled into the circulating blade of the device.

His parents recounted that he had been playing with the device before accidentally turning it on while holding it near his mouth.

“The child was screaming in pain … [and] the parents reported multiple failed attempts to remove the device which resulted in further bleeding and pain,” the case authors wrote in Cureus.