# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at Production Resource Group
> OSHA SIR `2017098816` · 9/14/2017 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Trusses, girders, beams-structurally attached, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Production Resource Group
- **Location:** Georgia World Congress Center, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30313
- **NAICS:** 561920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees used a box to hold up a decorative wooden box surrounding a vertical truss. As the injured employee pulled the cable out from inside the truss, the box holding up the decorative box slipped, causing the decorative box to fall onto the victim's left hand. The employee suffered lacerations, a contusion and possible fracture to the left hand.

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