# Cuts, lacerations at East Texas Utility Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015129786` · 12/29/2015 · MARSHALL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple head locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** East Texas Utility Service, Inc.
- **Location:** FM 1793 and State Hwy 59 North of Marshall, TX, MARSHALL, TEXAS, 75670
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was relocating the skidder digger.  While turning around, the vehicle was half on, half off the blacktop.  The right side of the skidder sunk into the soft dirt and it started to tip over.  The employee was pinned under the skidder cage. The employee sustained lacerations to the left ear and eye and a left shoulder injury. The employee was not wearing a seat belt at the time.

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