# Cuts, lacerations at Dual Fuel Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2023043419` · 4/17/2023 · MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Heating and cooking machinery and appliances, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Strapping
## Employer
- **Name:** Dual Fuel Corp.
- **Location:** 32 Courtlandt Street, MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, 10550
- **NAICS:** 332410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping secure a support structure for a heat exchanger that was going to be cut. The support structure was cut and the heat exchanger put tension on the strap that was securing it. The strap then broke and the heat exchanger fell. It struck the employee causing a laceration to their left lower leg.

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