# Cuts, lacerations at Contractors Access Equipment, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019066071` · 6/17/2019 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** Contractors Access Equipment, Inc.
- **Location:** 2222 S. Halsted Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60608
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 17, 2019, an employee was receiving a scaffolding piece on the ground as other employees dismantled a scaffold. The well wheel used to manually lower the equipment broke apart, causing the load to fall and strike the employee, who suffered a laceration to the upper left shoulder.

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