# Cuts, lacerations at West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016109660` · 10/13/2016 · NITRO, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Scrap metal
## Employer
- **Name:** West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Pickens Road, NITRO, WEST VIRGINIA, 25143
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were cutting metal. A piece of cut metal fell and struck an employee on the back causing a laceration.

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