# Cuts, lacerations at Equistar Chemicals
> OSHA SIR `2017065385` · 6/13/2017 · BAY CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Equistar Chemicals
- **Location:** 17042 State Highway 60 South, BAY CITY, TEXAS, 77414
- **NAICS:** 325110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disassembling a boom truck. During the process, the boom truck moved and the last bolt securing the crane assembly to the boom truck broke causing the entire crane assembly to move. The employee was caught between the outrigger of the crane assembly and the truck fuel tank resulting in a right leg laceration.

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