# Cuts, lacerations at Cooperative Producers Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021473` · 2/14/2017 · HASTINGS, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forehead
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cooperative Producers Inc.
- **Location:** 1113 W J Street, HASTINGS, NEBRASKA, 68901
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a trailer onto a hitch when he climbed underneath the tongue to try and position it. The tongue slipped off the ball and struck him in the head. He was hospitalized with forehead lacerations.

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