# Cuts, lacerations at Waste Management of PA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015042384` · 4/27/2015 · MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Chips, particles, splinters, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Toilets, urinals
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management of PA, Inc.
- **Location:** 510 W Cornell Rd, MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA, 16137
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At a residential garbage pick up location, an employee was picking up a toilet to place into a Waste Management Bagster Dumpster Bag tote.  The toilet hit the side of the tote and fell from the employees hands.  The employee was cut on the right forearm by pieces of the broken toilet.  The employee was hospitalized overnight for surgery to repair the cut and muscles damaged by the laceration.

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