# Cuts, lacerations at Libertas Copper, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021108940` · 10/17/2021 · LEETSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** Libertas Copper, LLC
- **Location:** 100 Washington Street, LEETSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15056
- **NAICS:** 331421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attaching a C-hook to a smaller scale hook attached to an overhead crane. The C-hook was resting on top of a coil. The smaller scale hook was not fitting into the C-hook and the C-hook slid off of the coil, striking the employee's left shin and causing a laceration.

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