# Cuts, lacerations at Texas Stevedoring Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023032602` · 3/23/2023 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Fasteners, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Stevedoring Services, LLC
- **Location:** Port of Houston, Barbours Cut Terminal, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 488310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lashing containers to a vessel when the twist-lock mechanism on a container came loose and fell, striking the employee on the hardhat. The employee sustained a head laceration.

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