# Cuts, lacerations at Texas Trailer Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20221110278` · 11/22/2022 · GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Trailer Corporation
- **Location:** 1310 West Hwy 82, GAINESVILLE, TEXAS, 76240
- **NAICS:** 336212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a manifold and de-valving a tube trailer. Upon removing the second tube valve, the valve ejected due to internal pressure in the tube and the employee was struck by either the valve or the pressure being released, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee sustained lacerations to the shin and above the eye as well as a shoulder contusion.

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