# Cuts, lacerations at Building Component Supply
> OSHA SIR `2019010025` · 1/2/2019 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
- **Source:** Roof trusses, joists
- **Secondary source:** Lifelines, lanyards, safety belts, harnesses
## Employer
- **Name:** Building Component Supply
- **Location:** Lot 14 Logan Point, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32208
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A carpenter was walking on trusses eight feet above the ground at a residential home construction site. He lost his footing and fell toward the ground. He was wearing a safety harness and lanyard that activated and stopped his fall. His safety helmet fell off and he crashed into the plywood siding of the house. The collision with the plywood caused a laceration to the head requiring hospitalization.

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