# Cuts, lacerations at WASTEQUIP MANUFACTURING COMPANY LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017109956` · 10/17/2017 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** WASTEQUIP MANUFACTURING COMPANY LLC
- **Location:** 2624 Mine and Mill Ln, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33801
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a 6-foot platform ladder while attempting to get his welding wire to feed properly through his weld wire feeder. He fell off the ladder and landed on the hook of a torch cutting station stand, suffering a laceration that was approximately 5 inches long and required surgery.

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