# Cuts, lacerations at Hialeah Housing Authority, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018044151` · 4/30/2018 · HIALEAH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Cranial region, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Hialeah Housing Authority, Inc.
- **Location:** 75 East 6th Street, HIALEAH, FLORIDA, 33010
- **NAICS:** 624229
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee painting from an A-frame ladder fell approximately 3 to 4 feet to the ground below, injuring his lower back and sustaining a head laceration requiring staples. He was hospitalized.

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