# Cuts, lacerations at United Structural Works
> OSHA SIR `2015118848` · 11/23/2015 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** United Structural Works
- **Location:** 139 W 91 Street, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10024
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was erecting steel. He was straddling a steel beam suspended by a crane when the end of the beam seesawed up under him and pinned him against a column. He was hospitalized with a leg laceration.

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