# Cuts, lacerations at Clarke-Washington Electric Membership Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017065756` · 6/22/2017 · GROVE HILL, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Clarke-Washington Electric Membership Corporation
- **Location:** Old Line Road, GROVE HILL, ALABAMA, 36451
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hoist to tighten a guy wire for repair when his hand slipped off the hoist handle and the hoist hit him on the right side of his face. He suffered lacerations to his face and eye area.

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