# Fractures at Vycom
> OSHA SIR `2016053921` · 5/8/2016 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vycom
- **Location:** 801 East Corey Street, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18505
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a mixing bowl when the bowl motor was actuated. The employee suffered skull fractures, lacerations and soft tissue damage and was hospitalized.

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