# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at United Parcel Service
> OSHA SIR `2025054280` · 5/7/2025 · TAMAQUA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service
- **Location:** 4 Liberty Street, TAMAQUA, PENNSYLVANIA, 18252
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading packages from a trailer and grabbed a box at eye level to put on the roller line. A package (containing metal) on top of that box slid forward and struck the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the corner of his right eye at the tear duct.

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