# Cuts, lacerations at Texas Disposal Systems
> OSHA SIR `2017010587` · 1/19/2017 · SEALY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Disposal Systems
- **Location:** 12001 Mlcak Rd, SEALY, TEXAS, 77474
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering a forklift when part of it broke off at the weld and the forklift fell 3 feet. The employee then hit his head on the bar support for the roll-over protection and suffered a laceration that required hospitalization.

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