# Cuts, lacerations at Waste Management
> OSHA SIR `20161211672` · 12/15/2016 · OSPREY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trash, garbage
- **Secondary source:** Cans
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management
- **Location:** 124 Happy Haven Drive, OSPREY, FLORIDA, 34229
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping trash from a can into a hopper when a piece of debris struck and cut him above the eye. He was hospitalized.

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