# Cuts, lacerations at Sunset Well Services
> OSHA SIR `2023076658` · 7/25/2023 · ODESSA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunset Well Services
- **Location:** Well HVU-5H, ODESSA, TEXAS, 79760
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were performing wireline operations when the slack on the wireline tightened, causing it to strike and lacerate the injured employee's neck.

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