# Cuts, lacerations at REX VAULT & MAUSOLEUM SERVICE, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016021048` · 2/3/2016 · NEWTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** REX VAULT & MAUSOLEUM SERVICE, INC.
- **Location:** 807 E Jourdan St, NEWTON, ILLINOIS, 62448
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was struck in the head while removing a concrete form used to manufacture burial vaults. The form was being removed when a bar swung and hit the employee in the head, knocking him to the ground. The employee was standing on the floor at the time and was wearing a protective helmet. He was hospitalized after being knocked unconscious with a cut to the head.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*