# Cuts, lacerations at Southwest Heat Treat
> OSHA SIR `2020087269` · 8/2/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forehead
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Forging machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwest Heat Treat
- **Location:** 1733 Lauder Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77039
- **NAICS:** 332811
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling out a pipe from a furnace when the mechanism that he was using malfunctioned and caused a part to break and hit the employee. The employee suffered a forehead laceration.

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