# Fractures at Sharum's Garden Center NWA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016032432` · 3/24/2016 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
- **Source:** Industrial tractor
## Employer
- **Name:** Sharum's Garden Center NWA, Inc.
- **Location:** 750 South Maestri Road, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72762
- **NAICS:** 444220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a pallet of pavers from a semi-truck with a tractor. The pallet of pavers shifted forward and fell off the tractor, causing it to jerk backward. The jerking of the tractor caused the neck of the employee to whip back, fracturing his C5 vertebrae. He experienced numbness in both arms and was hospitalized.

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