# Cuts, lacerations at Sturgeon Electric Transmission and Distribution
> OSHA SIR `2021086762` · 8/10/2021 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
## Employer
- **Name:** Sturgeon Electric Transmission and Distribution
- **Location:** Northfield, DENVER, COLORADO, 80238
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just used a 35-pound electrical ground rod driver to install a ground rod. While lifting the ground rod driver above his shoulders, he lost his balance and fell onto the rod that had been driven into the ground. He suffered a neck laceration requiring five stitches and hospitalization.

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