# Cuts, lacerations at Merck Sharp & Dohme
> OSHA SIR `2023087904` · 8/28/2023 · WEST POINT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, unspecified
- **Source:** Floor, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Merck Sharp & Dohme
- **Location:** 770 SUMNEYTOWN PIKE, WEST POINT, PENNSYLVANIA, 19486
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling small canisters when they fell and struck the back of their head on the floor. They sustained head lacerations.

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