# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at VFP Fire Systems
> OSHA SIR `2019033134` · 3/26/2019 · LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** VFP Fire Systems
- **Location:** First Quality Paper, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17745
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## 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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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*