# Cuts, lacerations at Bates Engineers/Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020077101` · 7/28/2020 · ANNISTON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Building materials-solid elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Bates Engineers/Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** Anniston Army Depot, Bldg. 170, ANNISTON, ALABAMA, 36201
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were removing interior metal liner wall panels two at a time, leaning them against the wall, and then lowering them to the ground to be stacked. Each panel is 3' wide x 18' 6" long, and weighs approximately 30 to 35 pounds. Two panels were leaning against the wall. The employees  lowered the first panel to the floor and were about to stack it, when the second panel fell and hit the injured employee s hard hat and cut his nose and cheek. The injured employee was hospitalized.

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