# Cuts, lacerations at Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065946` · 6/28/2017 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** 15100 Indepence Parkway, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76177
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a picker pallet unloading stock off a rack when the pallet broke and he fell 5 feet to the ground, lacerating his right eye and suffering a fracture.

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