# Cuts, lacerations at Joslin Construction Texas, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2019032549` · 3/9/2019 · PEARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Construction debris
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Joslin Construction Texas, LLC.
- **Location:** Pearland ISD Robert Turner High School, PEARLAND, TEXAS, 77584
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a 6-foot breaker bar to demolish an old concrete sidewalk when the concrete slipped off the excavator forks, causing the breaker bar to pop up. Concrete hit the employee in the chin and Adam's apple area, lacerating his neck and knocking him unconscious.

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