# Fractures at Southeast Milk, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043704` · 4/27/2017 · OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Southeast Milk, Inc.
- **Location:** 1005 NW Park St, OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA, 34974
- **NAICS:** 311511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift to move drums on a pallet. He dismounted the forklift to adjust two drums that had become off-center on the pallet when a drum fell and struck his leg, resulting in his hospitalization for a broken leg.

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