# Fractures at Virginia Transformer Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017087449` · 8/4/2017 · POCATELLO, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Virginia Transformer Corporation
- **Location:** 3770 Pole Line Rd, POCATELLO, IDAHO, 83201
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing next to two coworkers who were removing a shipping brace from a core and coil when the shipping brace slipped out of a coworker's hand and hit the employee in back of the head. The employee suffered a laceration and skull fracture, requiring hospitalization.

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