# Intracranial injuries  unspecified at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025021569` · 2/17/2025 · HANNIBAL, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Utility poles
## Employer
- **Name:** Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
- **Location:** 735 NY Route 34, HANNIBAL, NEW YORK, 13074
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were working on storm repairs to power lines. Frozen components of the crossarms of the power line supports failed; the primary conductors broke and fell against a tree and onto the ground. A ground crew member was struck in the head by either a section of a tree limb, communications cable, or one of the broken primary conductors. The employee sustained blunt force trauma to the head.

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