# Cuts, lacerations at Hassell Construction Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181212719` · 12/11/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Hassell Construction Company, Inc.
- **Location:** Adelaide Lift Station, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77084
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to tie steel rebar for a generator's concrete pad. The employee was holding rebar as another employee tied steel using tie wire. When the extra tie wire was cut it popped up and grazed the employee's left eye causing an eye laceration.

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