# Cuts, lacerations at Tyson Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016065403` · 6/17/2016 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 300 Portwall St., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift and was backing out of an aisle. A second forklift operator who was moving into the aisle did not see the employee who was backing out. The employee was struck by the second forklift's blades, lacerating his thigh. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

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