# Cuts, lacerations at Universal Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181212781` · 12/13/2018 · YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ducts
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Services, LLC
- **Location:** 211 E. Broadway St., YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI, 39194
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee finished working in an attic. While leaving the attic, the employee lost their balance. While falling, the employee caught their right hand on a duct strap resulting in a laceration of the right pinky finger and an injured tendon requiring hospitalization.

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