# Avulsions, enucleations at Domain Builders LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017021680` · 2/21/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ear(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Domain Builders LLC
- **Location:** 6301 Pale Sage Dr., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77049
- **NAICS:** 236116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sweeping the area in front of a work site when a flatbed truck containing post tension cables arrived. The truck pulled in through a gate and stopped to begin off-loading the post tension cables. The forklift operator unlatched the post tension cables and then noticed that the truck had stopped near a mound of dirt which the operator could not access with the forklift. When the truck moved forward, a post tension cable shifted and fell off the truck striking the employee who was sweeping in the face causing multiple lacerations and severing the top part of his left ear.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*