# Cuts, lacerations at SCHWERTNER FARMS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2020099028` · 9/23/2020 · SCHWERTNER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SCHWERTNER FARMS, INC.
- **Location:** 4651 FM487, SCHWERTNER, TEXAS, 76573
- **NAICS:** 112990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was holding an adjacent pen gate open when a forklift struck an overhead pipe and the pipe struck the employee in the back of the head. The employee sustained a head laceration/hematoma.

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