# Cuts, lacerations at Texas Electronic Systems Specialists, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017031931` · 3/1/2017 · COTULLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Electronic Systems Specialists, Inc.
- **Location:** 3423 IH-35, COTULLA, TEXAS, 78014
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee drove a high lift single operator cherry picker from the roadway onto the soft earth of a drainage ditch to avoid oncoming traffic. The uneven surface caused the employee to be thrown around the basket. The employee was wearing a safety harness and was not ejected, but received a severe laceration on his lower leg from contact with the basket guardrails.

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