Fractures

Name: Fractures at Virginia Transformer Corporation
Start: 8/4/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017087449 · 8/4/2017 · Virginia Transformer Corporation

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Skull
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
Source: Nonclassifiable

Employer

Name: Virginia Transformer Corporation
Location: 3770 Pole Line Rd, POCATELLO, IDAHO, 83201
NAICS: 335311
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was standing next to two coworkers who were removing a shipping brace from a core and coil when the shipping brace slipped out of a coworker's hand and hit the employee in back of the head. The employee suffered a laceration and skull fracture, requiring hospitalization.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown