# Cuts, lacerations at Verizon
> OSHA SIR `2017021842` · 2/27/2017 · PORT READING, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forehead
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Utility and telephone poles
## Employer
- **Name:** Verizon
- **Location:** 20 Markley St, PORT READING, NEW JERSEY, 07064
- **NAICS:** 517210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the left brow area after falling approximately 3 feet to the ground from a pole that he was climbing.

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