# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Metalplate Galvanizing, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2025055096` · 5/29/2025 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against stationary object while rising, lowering
- **Source:** Strapping, bands
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Metalplate Galvanizing, L.P.
- **Location:** 1120 39th Street North, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35234
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was helping a co-worker secure finishing material to a pallet using steel strapping (5/8" wide, 0.20" thick). The co-worker went to hand the strapping to the injured employee when they bent down and their right eye contacted the steel strapping, resulting in a laceration to the cornea and injury to the retina.

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