# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Progressive Materials LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025088056` · 8/14/2025 · SARALAND, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Roof surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Progressive Materials LLC
- **Location:** 717 Cleveland Rd, SARALAND, ALABAMA, 36571
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to inspect the roof of a church when the ladder slipped and the employee fell. He went to grab the rain gutter along the eave to break his fall when his right hand contacted a sharp edge on the gutter, resulting in a laceration to the right-hand fingers that required hospitalization.

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