# Cuts, lacerations at SCHNUCKS Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `20161110853` · 11/18/2016 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** SCHNUCKS Distribution Center
- **Location:** 8338 Scudder road, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63140
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was opening the doors of a semi tractor trailer when a stack of wooden pallets fell and struck her head, left shoulder, and left leg. She suffered a gash on the left side of her head and was hospitalized.

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