# Cuts, lacerations at SHOP VAC CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2019055224` · 5/23/2019 · WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Parts and materials, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SHOP VAC CORPORATION
- **Location:** 2323 REACH RD, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17701
- **NAICS:** 333319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working near a conveyor that carried totes of tank bottoms. Another employee stopped the upstream. The employee placed a tank bottom on the stopped conveyor and it fell off.  The employee tried to catch it, and the tank bottom lacerated the employee's right inner forearm.  The employee was hospitalized.

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