# Fractures at Anixter, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043596` · 4/21/2017 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Anixter, Inc.
- **Location:** 756 S Jason St, unit 1, DENVER, COLORADO, 80223
- **NAICS:** 423610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had climbed onto warehouse racking and stepped off the racking onto a pallet that was being carried by a forklift. The pallet broke and the employee fell 9 feet with the pallet falling on top of him resulting in fractured vertebrae and 10 stitches.

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