# Cuts, lacerations at MasTec Advance Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2016064996` · 6/6/2016 · HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** MasTec Advance Technologies
- **Location:** 133 SE 20th Terrace, HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA, 33033
- **NAICS:** 517110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up an extension ladder when the flank section of the ladder slid down and lacerated his left thumb, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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