# Cuts, lacerations at Howard Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181213270` · 12/30/2018 · LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** Howard Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 3225 Pendorf Road, LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI, 39440
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee cut his left calf on a roll of coiled steel while cleaning a warehouse. He was hospitalized.

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