# Cuts, lacerations at Silgan White Cap Americas, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017010023` · 1/4/2017 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Silgan White Cap Americas, LLC
- **Location:** 350 Jaycee Drive, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee attached a full drum to a drum hoist for transport. The full metal drum slipped from the drum hoist during transport and struck the employee's left shin, severely cutting it and requiring hospitalization.

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