# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at RYCOR Heating & Cooling
> OSHA SIR `2025054223` · 5/5/2025 · TROY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Stepped or knelt on object
- **Source:** Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
- **Secondary source:** Screws
## Employer
- **Name:** RYCOR Heating & Cooling
- **Location:** 541 9th Avenue, TROY, NEW YORK, 12180
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing HVAC equipment in a customer's attic when he knelt down on a support beam that had a screw sticking up out of it. The employee sustained a puncture to the knee that began swelling and he was hospitalized.

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