# Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at Pratt and Whitney Advanced Coating Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2017031962` · 3/2/2017 · MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Pratt and Whitney Advanced Coating Technologies
- **Location:** 60 Turner Drive, MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK, 10941
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a shipment of totes from a delivery truck. While the employee was putting the last tote onto a cart, the cart's leg broke, causing the totes to fall off of the cart and land on top of the employee.

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