# Cuts, lacerations at Daybrook Fisheries Inc
> OSHA SIR `20201010164` · 10/26/2020 · EMPIRE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Towers, poles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Daybrook Fisheries Inc
- **Location:** 136 Daybrook Lane, EMPIRE, LOUISIANA, 70050
- **NAICS:** 311710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 26, 2020, an employee was using a ladder to clear fishmeal from the cyclone funnel meal feeder on an elevated conveyor. While walking on the conveyor, the employee stepped onto a breaker box that was mounted on a pole alongside the conveyor. The breaker box broke free from it's metal mounting bracket, and the employee fell approximately 5'6" to the floor. The employee's right arm was lacerated by a mounting bracket as he fell. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to close the wound.

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