# Cuts, lacerations at Valley Timber, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016088256` · 8/31/2016 · FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Valley Timber, Inc.
- **Location:** 1809 Godfrey Avenue SE, FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA, 35967
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the chop saw. Another employee was operating a PIV and struck a metal cart that was holding wood and the cart then struck the employee operating the chop saw in the lower leg causing lacerations.

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