# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Silgan Containers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022010830` · 1/27/2022 · ROCHELLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Silgan Containers, LLC
- **Location:** 400 N 15th ST, ROCHELLE, ILLINOIS, 61068
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 8:30 a.m. on January 27, 2022, an employee was clearing a jam in a machine. While he was kneeling beneath a metal pocket on the machine (about 4 feet high, weighing about 10 pounds) that held parts, the pocket was lifted up off the chain and fell out, striking the employee on the head. He suffered a head laceration, a skull fracture, and internal bleeding and was hospitalized.

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