# Cuts, lacerations at Ranger Excavating, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2022043515` · 4/23/2022 · TEMPLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ranger Excavating, L.P.
- **Location:** 13217 Baileyfield Drive, TEMPLE, TEXAS, 76502
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a pan scraper when its left front tire hit a 3-foot-wide, 11-inch-deep hole. The top of his head struck the cab roof and his face struck the steering wheel. He suffered a bleeding cut to the head and a bloody nose.

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