# Cuts, lacerations at United Parcel Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231211755` · 12/30/2023 · LAWNSIDE, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 301 EAST OAK AVENUE, LAWNSIDE, NEW JERSEY, 08045
- **NAICS:** 492210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping out of a motorized cart/tug when he stepped on the accelerator and fell. The employee sustained a laceration from a metal chute that he struck his leg on and was hospitalized.

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