# Cuts, lacerations at Guardian Industries, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2016087164` · 8/3/2016 · WEBSTER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Glass building materials
## Employer
- **Name:** Guardian Industries, Incorporated
- **Location:** 5 Cudworth Road, WEBSTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01570
- **NAICS:** 327215
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 8/3/16, an employee was leaning glass sheets on a truck rack toward himself to identify/inventory loaded sheets when he lost control of the stack, which fell over and pinned him between the glass load and a hard object. The glass broke and lacerated his head and knee.

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