# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Brent Scarbrough & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087172` · 8/6/2024 · FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Excavators
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Brent Scarbrough & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** State Highway 54 and Tyrone Rd, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, 30215
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 5, 2024, an employee was fueling an excavator. He was walking on the excavator tracks to turn the fuel pump on. While walking back down the excavator track, he tripped and fell striking his head on the excavator bucket and causing his safety glasses to become lodged under his right eye. The employee was hospitalized for lacerations to the back of his right eyeball.

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