# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at Caldwell Tanks, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191213118` · 12/22/2019 · FACTORYVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple head locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Caldwell Tanks, Inc.
- **Location:** Bunker Hill Tank Site, FACTORYVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18419
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a scaffold board using a rope and pulley assembly when the board slipped out of the rope and fell. The board caught a tangle in the rope and caused the hook end of the rope to shoot upward, where it hit the employee in the face and head. The employee suffered a probable fracture or concussion and tissue damage in the right eye area.

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