# Cuts, lacerations at Publix Super Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015096813` · 9/17/2015 · POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Scrapers-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Super Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** 411 South Cypress Road, POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA, 33060
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up scrapers to clean the floor. The scrapers were in a cart and when one of them was falling off the cart, the employee tried to catch it and lacerated his right thumb.

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