Skull fracture and intracranial injury

Name: Skull fracture and intracranial injury at VFP Fire Systems
Start: 3/26/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019033134 · 3/26/2019 · VFP Fire Systems

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Brain
Nature of injury: Skull fracture and intracranial injury

Cause

Event: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Source: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
Secondary source: Cranes, unspecified

Employer

Name: VFP Fire Systems
Location: First Quality Paper, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17745
NAICS: 922160
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

A bundle of piping was being moved with a crane, with an employee holding onto the tagline to guide the bundle through an opening. A pipe was dislodged from the bundle and struck the employee in the forehead, knocking the employee unconscious and causing an open laceration and a small skull fracture above the eye. The employee was hospitalized.

Source

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