# Cuts, lacerations at Bilfinger Westcon Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109786` · 10/11/2017 · POINT COMFORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** Bilfinger Westcon Inc.
- **Location:** 201 Formosa Dr, POINT COMFORT, TEXAS, 77978
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a 20-foot scaffold and cleaning a pipe system when the hook of a come-a-long tool that was holding the pipe hit the upper side of his right leg, cutting the soft tissue. He was hospitalized.

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