# Cuts, lacerations at Utility Technology Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021903` · 2/27/2020 · DURANT, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Utility Technology Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Sand Stone Rd., DURANT, OKLAHOMA, 74701
- **NAICS:** 423720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were on-site delivering a bundle of pipes. An employee was unloading the pipes by tying the pipes with a chain that was hooked to the back of a pickup truck. When the pipes came off the flat bed, one of the pipes struck the injured employee, who was standing on the ground near the flat bed, on the head resulting in a laceration.

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