# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20191011057` · 10/23/2019 · GENTRY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation
- **Location:** 920 Highway 62 Spur, GENTRY, ARKANSAS, 72734
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting and removing a fallen tree and was pinning down the power line and communication cables. As the tree was being cut and removed, the communication cable sprang up and struck the employee in the face. The employee was hospitalized with facial injuries.

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