# Cuts, lacerations at Mohegan Associates, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019066478` · 6/27/2019 · HOPEWELL JUNCTION, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple arm locations, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mohegan Associates, Inc.
- **Location:** I84, HOPEWELL JUNCTION, NEW YORK, 12533
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a sign trailer and disconnecting a sign from its travel supports. The employee's right arm was caught on the horizontal stiffener (Z-bar). The employee fell off the trailer and suffered a laceration to the right arm from under the arm pit to below the elbow. The brachial artery was severed.

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