# Cuts, lacerations at Native Excavating, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022098234` · 9/17/2022 · STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Native Excavating, Inc.
- **Location:** 34560 Golden Eagle Dr., STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO, 80487
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had climbed onto the rebar lattice for one of the walls of a concrete foundation and was tying rebar together using lengths of wire. While transitioning from one location to another, the employee slipped and fell about 8 feet from the rebar lattice to the concrete foundation below resulting in a laceration to the head. The employee was wearing fall protection but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.

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