# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Utilities Structures, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021414` · 2/12/2025 · FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by propelled object or substance  unspecified
- **Source:** Wire, cables nonelectrified
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Utilities Structures, Inc.
- **Location:** 2880 Ford Street, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 33916
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pre-stressing (stretching) cable for precast concrete light poles. The jack used to stress the cable slipped and one cable recoiled and struck a second cable. The employee went to retrieve the jack and the second cable recoiled and struck his leg. He sustained a severe laceration to the left thigh.

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