# Cuts, lacerations at Waste Management Biloxi Transfer Station, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018055271` · 5/30/2018 · BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
- **Source:** Hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management Biloxi Transfer Station, LLC
- **Location:** 14339 Hudson Krohn Road, BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI, 39532
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the progress of waste being ejected from a walking floor trailer when a pressurized hydraulic hose blew apart. The employee's lower leg was lacerated.

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