# Fractures at Cheetah Transportation
> OSHA SIR `2017054688` · 5/24/2017 · CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Pickup truck
- **Secondary source:** Plastic wrap
## Employer
- **Name:** Cheetah Transportation
- **Location:** 8280 Sheldon Rd., CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS, 77530
- **NAICS:** 484122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a pallet from the bed of a pickup truck. The employee went to grab shrink-wrapping to pull the pallet back. The shrink-wrapping failed and the employee fell from the truck bed and landed on his head, fracturing his skull.

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