# Cuts, lacerations at Jack Williams Tire Company, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2018021760` · 2/21/2018 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Jack Williams Tire Company, Incorporated
- **Location:** 1900 South Washington Avenue, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18505
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee operating a motorized pallet jack struck a support beam. A piece of protruding metal on the support beam caused a severe laceration to the employee's right calf, requiring hospitalization.

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