Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Skull fracture and intracranial injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at VFP Fire Systems, First Quality Paper, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA 17745
on — Skull fracture and intracranial injury, affecting the brain.
Final 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.
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