# Intracranial injuries with skull fractures at CPCneutek
> OSHA SIR `2024010574` · 1/19/2024 · GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Wire, cables nonelectrified
## Employer
- **Name:** CPCneutek
- **Location:** 2800 Printers Way, GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, 81506
- **NAICS:** 323111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a jam from a baler machine. The employee restarted the system, then bent to check it after realizing that the bale was still not moving forward. A baler wire snapped and hit him in the head; his head then hit the door of the machine. He lost consciousness and suffered a skull fracture and head laceration.

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