# Cuts, lacerations at Universal Cable Holdings, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098842` · 9/15/2017 · KERMIT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Cable Holdings, Inc.
- **Location:** 1600 S. State Hwy 18, KERMIT, TEXAS, 79745
- **NAICS:** 517110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee began to fall in a customer's attic and grabbed a metal strap holding duct work. The metal strap cut his hand, damaging tendons in his index and middle fingers.

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