# Cuts, lacerations at Allied Waste Services of Fort Worth, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016098490` · 9/8/2016 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Waste Services of Fort Worth, LLC
- **Location:** 6200 Elliott Reeder Rd., FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76117
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing between a parked forklift and the discharge side of an automatic-ejecting baler. The baler pushed out a bale and pinned the employee's calf between the bale and the fork of the forklift, lacerating the employee's lower leg.

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