# Concussions at Universal Refractories Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021043164` · 4/15/2021 · CANTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Refractories Corporation
- **Location:** 4511 Faircrest Rd, CANTON, OHIO, 44706
- **NAICS:** 327120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was remote-operating a crane at about midnight. A steel beam fell and hit him in the head, knocking him into something hot. He suffered a concussion, a wound on the back of the head that required staples, and burns.

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