# Fractures at Watsontown Brick Company
> OSHA SIR `2024054455` · 5/21/2024 · WATSONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Watsontown Brick Company
- **Location:** 86 Portmay Rd, WATSONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17777
- **NAICS:** 327121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing the operation of the stacker machine and climbed onto a platform to align bricks in the stacker. While the employee was on the platform, the machine cycled, striking and pinning him to the chain conveyor. The employee suffered abrasions on his arms and hairline fractures of his pelvis.

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