# Cuts, lacerations at Ercistad, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077090` · 7/14/2018 · SCHERTZ, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural stones or slabs, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ercistad, Inc.
- **Location:** 1001 Elbel Road, SCHERTZ, TEXAS, 78154
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sweeping the floor inside a building. A conduit was being installed from the outside of the building; a 4x6x5 piece of stone was jarred loose from the top of a masonry column above where the employee was sweeping. The stone fell 23 feet onto the employee's hard hat, penetrating the hat and lacerating his head. He was hospitalized.

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