# Cuts, lacerations at METTON AMERICA
> OSHA SIR `2019088539` · 8/19/2019 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forehead
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Caps, lids, covers, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
## Employer
- **Name:** METTON AMERICA
- **Location:** 2727 MILLER CUT OFF RD., LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to use a portable concrete mixer along with two other employees when the lid of the cement mixer came off and hit the top of the employee's forehead, causing a laceration just behind the hairline.

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